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| The Great Dictator (1940) |
vilero  | No doubt: the most famous speech in the whole cinema history "I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate - has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man - cries for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say: 'Do not despair.' The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St Luke, it is written the kingdom of God is within man not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful - to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason - a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite! Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah. The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world - a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and their brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hannah... look up!" In may opinion it would be taught in every school, of every town, city, village, of every country of every nation. How easy is to lose our freedom and how it’s hard to get it again. |
2009-02-09 19:40 | |
| 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Croydon Convertible Coupe [261AJS] The Great Dictator (1940) |
park-ward  | And it is chassis #261AJS. This car is now in Finland. -- Last edit: 2007-04-13 19:01:58 |
2007-04-13 19:01 | |
| 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Croydon Convertible Coupe [261AJS] The Great Dictator (1940) |
robgeelen  | This croydon was actually owned by Charles Chaplin from new.... | 2007-02-02 00:31 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun  | Strange letters under the picture is Japanese. I forgot to cut off  |
2006-03-03 19:21 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
wrenchhead  | I think you have it. .gif) |
2006-03-03 19:20 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun | I searched my bookshelves and scanned. How about it? Mercedes 15/70/100 PS (1924-) This model seems to have both 'Mercedes' & 'Mercedes-Benz' names.  -- Last edit: 2006-03-03 19:18:32 |
2006-03-03 19:17 | |
| 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Croydon Convertible Coupe [261AJS] The Great Dictator (1940) |
antp  | Nice .gif ":)") |
2006-02-12 15:24 | |
| 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Croydon Convertible Coupe [261AJS] The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun | I found. Rolls Royce Phantom II Croydon convertible coupe (1931-32) http://www.collectionatcarriagehouse.com/Amelia04_Ramp04/target38.html It has UK-built left-hand-drive chassie and US Brewster body. From 1921-1933(or 34), Rolls-Royce was built in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1929, they faced three difficulties, The Great Depression, fall of sales, and model had changed to Phantom II. So they stopped production of old Phantom and imported 127 PhantomII left-hand-drive chassies from UK and bodied in US. This 'Croydon' convertible body was produced only 13. -- Last edit: 2006-02-12 15:15:48 |
2006-02-12 15:15 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun | I reached, thank you! I've read that web page, and feel very similar but a little longer... As far I know, in the case of 24/100/140 space is made between fender and spare-tire. (due to length of engine) |
2006-01-17 19:23 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
antp | Works better with all lowercase and no spaces http://home.att.net/~berliner-ultrasonics/mercedes.html |
2006-01-17 18:13 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun | I want to see the picture that you suggested...but can't reach. How can I reach that URL? | 2006-01-17 17:35 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
pilou | I am not a Mercedes specialist but there are period pictures of a very similar ,or maybe the same car on home.all.net/~ Berliner-Ultrasonics/Mercedes htlm. It is a 1924 type 24/100/140 with an American double cowl-double windshield four door open touring aluminium body by Fleetwood.Indeed the body of this Mercedes in the Great Dictator looks quite un-German and may be of US origin. |
2006-01-17 16:32 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun | sample picture of 15/70/100 PS (or named 400K ?) http://auta5p.car.cz/muzea/atm_sinsheim_2004/sinsheim_343.htm http://mb-portal.net/html/modelle/190.htm http://www.favory-no1.com/eng/www/profil.cfm Some of 15/70/100 PS were imported to Japan at that time. And about twenty years after, some was converted to the Japanese-style funeral coach. |
2006-01-16 18:57 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Junkman  | Could be a 550K | 2006-01-15 01:19 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
Jun | I bet Mercedes-Benz 15/70/100 PS (1924-29?) Bumper seems addes afterwards. |
2006-01-14 18:09 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
wickey  | it is Mercedes Benz for sure, but I do not know the type. | 2006-01-14 16:09 | |
| 1932 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Phaeton The Great Dictator (1940) |
wickey | really not a Horch?  :o |
2006-01-14 16:08 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
stronghold  | Astro-Daimler ...or mercedes-Benz.? | 2006-01-14 09:44 | |
| 1932 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Phaeton The Great Dictator (1940) |
Junkman | 1932 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Phaeton -- Last edit: 2006-01-14 02:33:47 |
2006-01-14 02:29 | |
| 1932 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Phaeton The Great Dictator (1940) |
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2006-01-14 01:59 | |
| 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Croydon Convertible Coupe [261AJS] The Great Dictator (1940) |
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2006-01-14 01:57 | |
| 1924 Mercedes 15/70/100 PS The Great Dictator (1940) |
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