Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Directed by

Charlie Chaplin

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 04m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 478 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former bank teller marries and kills wealthy women to support his own family. The story follows his calculated schemes and the moral compromises he makes.

darkly comicsatiricalcoldtensebleakcalculatedprovocativeuneven

What happens

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. The film concerns a former bank teller who marries and murders wealthy women in order to support his wife and child. It was controversial upon its release for its dark tone and critique of war and capitalism, and was consequently a critical and box office failure. Because the film was released around the same time that Chaplin was facing accusations of being a Communist, it was boycotted by several civic groups and damaged Chaplin's career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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