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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Comedy | Crime | Drama

Overview

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Rated NR | Length 124 minutes

Actors

Charlie 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 | Ed Agresti | Warren Ashe | Gertrude Astor | John Breen | Ralph Brooks | James Carlisle | Wheaton Chambers | Julius Cramer | James Craven | Joseph Crehan | Oliver Cross | Russell Custer | Albert D'Arno | Daniel De Jonghe | Diana Deane | George Dee | Josette Deegan | Jack Deery | Cyril Delevanti | Wheeler Dryden | Elspeth Dudgeon | Dick Earle | Ella Ethridge | Herbert Evans | Franklyn Farnum | Tom Ferrandini | Charles Fogel | George Ford | Raoul Freeman | Rudy Germane | Joe Gilbert | Dick Gordon | Herschel Graham | Joseph Granby | Stuart Hall | Sam Harris | Adolf Hitler | Boyd Irwin | Fred Karno Jr. | Colin Kenny | Bert LeBaron | Ruth Lee | Ethelreda Leopold | Carl M. Leviness | Leota Lorraine | Robert Locke Lorraine | Therese Lyon | Wilbur Mack | George Magrill | Lester Matthews | Eric Mayne | Clyde McLeod | Harold Miller | Hans Moebus | Ralph Montgomery | Benito Mussolini | Paul Newlan | Barry Norton | Louis Payne | Albert Petit | Hamil Petroff | Foster H. Phinney | Catherine Price | Edna Purviance | Frank Reicher | Greg Rhinelander | Addison Richards | Suzanne Ridgeway | Jeffrey Sayre | Carlo Schipa | Wallace Scott | William Self | C. Montague Shaw | Millard Sherwood | Bert Stevens | Nanette Vallon | Herb Vigran | Charles Wagenheim | Pierre Watkin | Eric Wilton

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