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"The Great Dictator" 273
and orders him to a concentration camp. As he is led out, Shultz exclaims, "Your cause is doomed to failure!" Hynkel shouts "Traitor, Democrat!" and goes into a tantrum which ends when a voluminous cape is thrown over him, which acts like a strait jacket. He cannot extricate his hands even to receive some notes.
The barber, all spruced up, equips himself with a toothpick from the cash register, shines his nails on the barber chair, and watched by all the neighbors, strolls out with Hannah. Their gayety ends when the radio starts blaring Hynkel's latest speech. The street loudspeaker dissolves to a closeup of Hynkel raving before the mike. The ghetto folk start running. As the raving intensifies ("rouse mitter," etc.), the barber dives into a barrel head first.
The radio blast continues; the camera moves very close to Hynkel's face. The march of the storm troopers is heard . . . people running . . . shots. . . . Hannah becomes hysterical. Jaeckel says, "Lock the doors, we've got to make a stand. We might as well die as go on like this."
Troopers break in and the barber gets a beating until he is identified as Schultz's friend. He feels safe until he hears the news flash announcing Schultz's arrest. The troopers break in again.
The camera moves into a closeup of a bird cage as there is a rush up the stairs. The troopers chant, "We want the barber!" The couple escape to the roof top in time to see the barber shop burning. Hannah says, "Never mind; we can start over again in Austerlich." Jaeckel announces, "The coast is clear." As they go back Schultz is found hiding in the cellar.
At a midnight meeting in the cellar, Schultz calls for an uprising against the tyrant. Mrs. Jaeckel and Hannah are worried. "We Jewish people shouldn't get mixed up