The Great Dictator Page #6

I want him to sign the treaty.

What would my people think,

signing such a treaty

when your soldiers

are on the border?

I won't move until you sign!

Not until you clear the border

will I sign!

Then they remain.

Then I kick them off.

One move from you and my artillery

will blow you to pieces!

And my aeroplanes will bomb

your artillery like that!

You want-a start a world war?

You and the world

I'll throw in the ocean!

Strawberries!

Your Excellency, we have...

I got-a my guns here in the pass

and I'll blow him to pieces.

What's the matter? What ails you?

This isn't like you.

Hey, Garbitsch, come here.

What's with Hynky?

Mustard on his strawberries.

What else can you expect

from Hynky?

My little bambino!

The Bacterian...

Tomainia...

You cannot treat Bacteria this way.

I'll take the Bacterian people

and tear them apart, like this!

Look what he's doing!

It's an insult to my people!

He's -a tearing spaghetti!

He sign-a the treaty

or we have a war!

Give me a-something!

Quick, give me a-something!

- I have an appointment.

- What's this?

Press.

How's the conference progressing?

Very successfully.

How did you get in?

How did he get here?

You know the regulations

about reporters.

No one is to enter the palace

under any circumstances, understand?

There are minor details

to be cleaned up...

Excuse me, we're busy.

The whole world

will know we're fighting!

- So what?

- Can't we come to an agreement?

When he signs.

I sign nothing.

I must speak to you alone.

Do you mind?

Mind? I don't mind!

Sign! Sign!

He'll have the advantage.

It's a mere scrap of paper.

When his troops are off the border,

we can move in.

I'll sign.

What? Hold-a this.

Ah, my little Hynky!

My dictator brother!

I knew we have-a no trouble.

Two prisoners

escaped in officers' uniforms.

Sound the alarm!

Two prisoners escaped.

The planes are searching for us.

The woods.

No, the open.

The border's that way.

The invasion of Osterlich.

Now or never.

Ducks.

Did you hear that?

It came from over there.

A yodeller.

Where did you get that outfit?

- What?

- Don't answer back!

Where's Schultz?

You won't talk, eh?

- He will when we get him to camp.

- Come on.

There it is.

The village of Pretzelburg.

If we can pass through there

we're safe.

Through the woods?

They're swarming with soldiers.

They'd suspect us at once.

If you see anyone,

don't look right or left.

We must bluff our way through.

Here they come.

Can you see what they're doing?

- Looking this way.

- Keep going!

They're following us. Shall we run?

Certainly not.

Just a little bit?

Keep walking!

We could walk faster.

Make up your mind.

Slow down?

- No!

- There's no hurry.

He's here!

Sound assembly!

Attention!

Present arms!

Turn back?

No, keep going!

Hail Hynkel!

Your Excellency,

everything is under control.

- Good.

- Good.

I have been in communication

with Marshal Herring in Osterlich.

The route is well guarded. Behind us

are 200 tanks, 50 armoured cars

and 500 machine-guns.

- Good.

- Good.

Are we ready to start?

- Yes.

- Yes.

Gentlemen.

Schultz,

I'm happy you're with us again.

Thank you.

Where are we going?

You're invading Osterlich.

They're coming.

Your Excellency.

The world awaits your words.

What's happened?

He looks strange.

What's Schultz doing here?

Pardoned, I suppose.

His Excellency Herr Garbitsch,

Secretary of the Interior,

Minister of Propaganda...

Corona veniet delectis.

Victory shall come to the worthy.

Today, democracy, liberty

and equality

are words to fool the people.

No nation

can progress with such ideas.

They stand in the way of action.

Therefore, we abolish them.

In the future, each man will serve

the state with absolute obedience.

Let him who refuses beware!

Citizenship will be taken away

from all Jews and non-Aryans.

They are inferior and therefore

enemies of the state.

It is the duty of all true Aryans

to hate and despise them.

This nation

is annexed to the Tomainian Empire,

and the people will obey the laws

bestowed on us by our great leader,

the Dictator of Tomainia,

the conqueror of Osterlich,

the future Emperor of the World!

You must speak.

I can't.

You must. It's our only hope.

Hope...

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:

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 misery.

We don't want to hate one another.

In this world,

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 bloodshed.

We have developed speed

but have shut ourselves in.

Machinery 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 radio

have brought us closer.

These inventions cry out

for the goodness in man,

cry out for universal brotherhood,

for the unity of us all.

Even now

my voice is reaching millions,

millions of despairing men,

women and 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 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

will return to the people.

So long as men die

liberty will never perish.

Soldiers,

don't give yourselves to brutes,

men who despise you, enslave you,

regiment your lives,

tell you what to think and feel,

who drill you, treat you like cattle

and use you as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these 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 you.

Don't hate. Only the unloved

and the unnatural hate.

Soldiers, don't fight for slavery,

fight for liberty!

St. Luke says,

"The Kingdom of God is within man."

Not in one man nor a group of men,

but in all men. In you!

You have the power

to create machines,

the power to create happiness.

You have the power to make

this life free and beautiful,

to make this life

a wonderful adventure.

In the name of democracy,

let us use that power.

Let us all unite,

let us fight for a new world,

a world

that will give men a chance to work,

that will give youth a future

and old age security.

Promising these things,

brutes have risen.

But they lie! They do not fulfil

that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves

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