Monsieur Verdoux
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash.
Plot
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before being laid off. To support his wheelchair-using wife and his child, he turns to the business of marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais withdraws all her money and disappears two weeks after marrying a man named "Varnay", whom they only know through a photograph.
Awards
Cast
- Addison Richards
- Almira Sessions
- Arthur Hohl
- Barry Norton
- Benito Mussolini
- Charles Wagenheim
- Charlie Chaplin
- Colin Kenny
- Cyril Delevanti
- Edna Purviance
- Frank Reicher
- Franklyn Farnum
- Fritz Leiber
- Harold Miller
- Irving Bacon
- Isobel Elsom
- John Harmon
- Joseph Crehan
- Lester Matthews
- Mady Correll
- Marilyn Nash
- Marjorie Bennett
- Martha Raye
- Pierre Watkin
- Robert Lewis
- Virginia Brissac
- William Frawley