MONSIEUR VERDOUX - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Plot: 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 (including one played by the indefatigable Martha Raye, in a hilarious performance). This deeply philosophical and wildly entertaining film is a work of true sophistication, both for the moral questions it dares to ask and for the way it deconstructs its megastar’s lovable on-screen persona.
• 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: 2:04
• Company: The Chaplin Studios, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie