Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux

1947 | 2h 8m | Comedy, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

A redundant bank clerk attempts to find any means at his disposal to protect his crippled wife and family by bigamously courting and marrying rich women, securing their property and then returning home with the booty.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Charlie Chaplin

CAST

Charlie Chaplin

Mady Correll

Allison Roddan

PRODUCERS

Charlie Chaplin

WRITERS

Charlie Chaplin

Related Videos

02:58
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) -- (Movie Clip) These Are Desperate Days
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We have learned that Charles Chaplin, the director, writer and title character, marries and kills women for a living, here for the first time we meet his sympathetic, preferred family, son Peter (Allison Roddan) and wife Mona (Mady Correll), in Monsieur Verdoux, 1947.
03:42
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Sign For It
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The first appearance of the writer, director and star, Charles Chaplin as the title character who has caused concern back in England with the family of his new middle-aged wife Thelma, especially regarding her money, in Monsieur Verdoux, 1947.
03:48
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Put It In Your Name
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Director and star Charles Chaplin now posing as "Captain Louis," in Lyon visiting another current wife, Annabella (Martha Raye), who has bought hot diamonds, and whom he may need to kill, later tangling with a con man played by Chaplin's half-brother Wheeler Dryden, in Monsieur Verdoux, 1947.

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