The Great Dictator (1940)

A comedy by Charlie Chaplin.
A soldier saves the life of a commander during world war 1, but their plane crashes and the soldier ends up in the hospital. When he gets out, he goes back to the barber shop that he owns to find that fascists have taken over the country and are terrorizing his neighborhood. The commander who he saved is leading the local brigade and stops them from being a menace there. For this, he is accused of treason and the soldier and commander are both hunted down and thrown in a concentration camp.
This film is a parody of the Nazi party during world war 2. They used absurd names for people and places for the value of mockery. Adolf Hitler became Adenoid Hynkle, Goebbels became Garbitsch and the swastika was turned into a "double cross" (which is an evil enough symbol on it's own. Have you ever been double crossed?). There is some slapstick and physical comedy, but not to the degree that I've come to expect from Mr. Chaplin. I always compare to The Adventurer which was about 20 minutes of ass kicking. I'm rating this poor because I had a hard time watching it and had to take it on in chunks.