Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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cc 270 The camera moves forward, in the great throne room in Hynkel's palace. As he stuffs a folded letter into an envelope, a flunkey bends, sticks out his tongue, and Hynkel seals the envelope. He goes into another room to pose for a few seconds for an artist and a sculptor. The bell rings. Herring has a bullet-proof suit to demonstrate, ''made of material as light as silk." Hynkel tests it by shooting at the inventor. As the man falls dead, Hynkel casually remarks, "Far from perfect." He goes to another room, tripping over raised insignia on the floor, and sits at the piano. The notes he produces have a gargling sound and he sprays his throat. Then he yells into a concealed microphone in a fruit bowl, summoning a man whom he orders to summon his secretary. A bugle is blown, the girl enters, heils, and is ordered to "take a letter." Hynkel stares at her, snorts, bends her back in a passionate embrace and snorts as she pipes "No! No!" but the telephone rings ... he drops her. . . . Herring has a parachute hat to demonstrate. Herring brings in the inventor. Wearing the contraption the inventor heils and jumps out the window. The two men lean out and Hynkel exclaims testily, "Herring, why do you waste my time like this?" The dictator darts in for another two seconds of posing, then confers with Garbitsch. Too much money is being spent on the concentration camps. Garbitsch exclaims they have to accommodate the five or ten thousand people arrested daily. Moreover the prisoners complain of the quality of the sawdust in the bread. Hynkel is indignant. "It's from the finest lumber our mills can supply!" As Hynkel admires himself in the mirror, Garbitsch says, "The people are restless. . . . We might go further with the Jews." Hynkel disagrees, "We must do something more dramatic, like invading Austerlich." Garbitsch explains that this will require a loan from Epstein (a