Monsieur Verdoux

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


A 1947 Black Comedy film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, based on an idea by Orson Welles, about a bigamist wife killer. Didn't expect that from Chaplin, didn't you?

It was a critical and commercial flop, Chaplin's previous scandals not helping in the least. It still was nominated for the 1947 Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), and was later Vindicated by History.

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