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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.
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France, early 1930s. After working for 30 years at a bank, Henri Verdoux is laid off. The world is in the middle of a depression and work is hard to find. To support his wife and child, Verdoux takes to a life of crime - marrying rich women, murdering them and taking their money.
No accident that Chaplin was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee at the time Monsieur Verdoux came out. Based on the famous French mass criminal Henry Desire Landru, Monsieur Verdoux tells the story of a bank clerk who lost his job and to support his family started marrying and murdering rich women.
In 1918, he married Mildred Harris and they had a son together, Norman Spencer Chaplin, who lived only three days. Chaplin and Harris divorced in 1920. He married Lita Grey in 1924, who had two sons, Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. They were divorced in 1927.
Henri Verdoux : I have made my peace with God, my conflict is with man. Prosecutor : Never, never in the history of jurisprudence have such terrifying deeds been brought to light. Gentlemen of the jury, you have before you a cruel and cynical monster. Look at him!
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Revealing mistakes - (at around 20 mins) When the camera moves forward to focus on Monsieur Verdoux at the café, a female passer-by is looking directly at the camera.
Verdoux's quote "One murder makes a villain; millions a hero" is taken from the abolitionist Bishop Beilby Porteus (1731-1808). Based on real-life convicted French murderer Henri Désiré Landru, who was executed by guillotine in 1922.
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.
Monsieur Verdoux; BAFTA Awards. 1976 Winner Academy Fellowship. Directors Guild of America, USA. 1974 Winner DGA Honorary Life Member Award. Film Society of Lincoln Center. 1972 Winner Gala Tribute. Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. 1958 Nominee Silver Ribbon. Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) A King in New York; 1953 Winner Silver Ribbon. Limelight; For the best foreign language film. Jussi Awards. 1974 Winner Jussi. Best Foreign Filmmaker;
