MONSIEUR VERDOUX

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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Plot: Henri Verdoux's business requires a lot of travel. His business involves wooing wealth spinsters, winning their confidence and bank accounts, then killing the hapless biddies before moving on to his next conquest.; ; Charles Chaplin turns his traditionally sunny sensibilities inside out with this sublime black comedy about a family man who secretly uses murder to support his beloved invalid wife and child. There's little of the immortal Tramp in Verdoux, yet the fastidious dandy is not lacking in comic graces. Most hilarious of all are the always-foiled attempts to dispatch the raucous Annabella (Martha Raye). When this most atypical Chaplin film opened, the world was not ready to look death in the face and walk away smiling. Today, Monsieur Verdoux ranks among Chaplin's best works. It is a killer comedy.
• Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz, Martha Raye, Ada May, Isobel Elsom, Marjorie Bennett, Helene Heigh, Margaret Hoffman, Marilyn Nash, Irving Bacon, Edwin Mills, Virginia Brissac, Almira Sessions, Eula Morgan, Bernard Nedell, Charles Evans, William Frawley, Arthur Hohl, Barbara Slater, Fritz Leiber, Vera Marshe, John Harmon, Christine Ell, Lois Conklin, Richard Abbott, Warren Ashe, Gertrude Astor, Ralph Brooks, Wheaton Chambers, Julius Cramer, James Craven, Joseph Crehan, Albert D'Arno, Daniel De Jonghe, George Dee, Josette Deegan, Cyril Delevanti, Wheeler Dryden, Elspeth Dudgeon, Ella Ethridge, Herbert Evans, Franklyn Farnum, Joseph Granby, Adolf Hitler, Boyd Irwin, Fred Karno Jr., Colin Kenny, Bert LeBaron, Ruth Lee, Carl M. Leviness, Therese Lyon, Wilbur Mack, Lester Matthews, Harold Miller, Ralph Montgomery, Benito Mussolini, Paul Newlan, Barry Norton, Albert Petit, Edna Purviance, Frank Reicher, Addison Richards, Suzanne Ridgeway, Jeffrey Sayre, Carlo Schipa, William Self, C. Montague Shaw, Millard Sherwood, Bert Stevens, Nanette Vallon, Herb Vigran, Charles Wagenheim, Pierre Watkin, Orson Welles
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Runtime: 1:59
• Company: Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie