Henri Verdoux
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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 .
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.
Description : 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.
Monsieur Verdoux. Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.
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...
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Charles Chaplin, without modesty, described Monsieur Verdoux as “the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career”. He was from time to time to qualify this opinion; but Verdoux was certainly the blackest of his comedies - the story of a serial killer who ends up beheaded on the guillotine.
Mar 26, 2013 · The protagonist of Charles Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux (1947) seduces lonely middle-aged women with bad poetry. He marries them, fleeces them, murders them, and disposes of their bodies. Eventually, he surrenders to the cops, and then proceeds to blame everyone but himself. He should be repulsive, but he isn’t. In fact, Verdoux is likable.
