Charlie Chaplin
Henri Verdoux
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Monsieur Verdoux. Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash . In the film, a bank teller is fired after three decades of work.
- $323,000 (US), $1.5 million (international)
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Chaplin
- April 11, 1947
Charles Chaplin plays a bank clerk who marries and murders rich women for their money in this satire of capitalism and war. The film was based on the real-life case of Henri Landru and features Martha Raye, Isobel Elsom and other stars.
- (19K)
- Charles Chaplin
- Passed
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 film by Charlie Chaplin that depicts his character as a twentieth-century bluebeard who supports his wife and child by bumping off wealthy widows. The film explores themes of money, marriage, and murder, and challenges the audience's perception of Chaplin's lovable persona.
Mar 26, 2013 · Landru, the real-life bluebeard who inspired Monsieur Verdoux, committed his crimes between 1914 and 1918; Chaplin moved the setting two decades forward, to the 1930s. Verdoux’s crimes play out against the rise of fascism in Europe; his surrender appears to occur on April 27, 1937, the day after the bombing of Guernica.
The world is in the middle of a depression and work is hard to find. To support his wife and child, Verdoux takes to a life of crime - marrying rich women, murdering them and taking their money. After a while the police start to piece the puzzle together. — grantss. In the early 1930s after thirty years of faithful service, Paris bank clerk ...
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is a dapper Parisian family man who loses his job as a bank clerk. In order to support his wife and child, he devises a plan to woo and marry rich widows under a ...
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A film by Charles Chaplin about a man who marries and kills wealthy widows to support his sick wife. See the cast, crew, synopsis, photos, videos, awards and reviews of this classic Hollywood crime drama.
