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
Monsieur Verdoux: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis. A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
- (19K)
- Charles Chaplin
- Passed
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
Inspired by notorious French serial killer Landru, Henri Verdoux lures wealthy women by promising them sweet happy-ever-afters. After the wedding bells chime, however, he murders them for their fortunes. In this particularly dark comedy, Chaplin questions our perception of evil: Isn’t this refined criminal a mere amateur compared to weapons suppliers and dictators? We stand ready to condemn ...
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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- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Chaplin
- Comedy, Drama
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Monsieur Verdoux, 1947. The idea was originally suggested by Orson Welles, as a project for a dramatised documentary on the career of the legendary French murder Henri Désiré Landru - who was executed in 1922, having murdered at least ten women, two dogs and one boy. Chaplin was so intrigued by the idea that he paid Welles $5000 for it, with ...
Monsieur Verdoux. Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. Chaplin is a twentieth-century bluebeard, an enigmatic family man who goes to extreme lengths to support his wife and child, attempting to bump off a series of wealthy widows ...
