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Bookmark or Share- Monsieur Verdoux Synopsis - Charlie ChaplinSynopsis of Monsieur Verdoux by Charles Chaplin in My Autobiography, published 1964. Verdoux is a bluebeard, an insignificant bank clerk, who, having lost his job during the Depression, evolves a scheme of marrying old spinsters and murdering them for their money.
- Monsieur Verdoux - WikipediaMonsieur 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 - Charlie ChaplinInspired 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 (1947) - The Criterion CollectionCharlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.
- Monsieur Verdoux: Sympathy for the Devil | Current | The Criterion ...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.
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