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