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	Monsieur Verdoux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monsieur Verdoux is a film directed by Charlie Chaplin that debuted in 1947.
		The film ends as Verdoux is being led to the guillotine in the prison courtyard after defending his actions as no worse than those carried out every day by businessmen and soldiers.
		Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King in New York, A Countess from Hong Kong
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monsieur_Verdoux (570 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Monsieur Verdoux: The Chaplin Collection
		Verdoux devises another means to care for his dear wheelchair-bound wife and the young son he loves — using make-believe jobs as cover for his travels, he woos rich widows in other cities, marries them, then murders them for their money.
		Because of a scene in which Verdoux's dialogue with a priest is flippant and unrepentant, it was decried as blasphemous.
		Monsieur Verdoux is no exception, with its fuzzy internal time, ungraceful contrivances, and characters, including his family, whose fates remain ambiguous — all glitches that could have been fixed in one weekend during the three years Chaplin worked on the screenplay.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/m/monsieurverdoux.shtml (2307 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Monsieur Verdoux
		Verdoux quietly demands to be taken at his word when making such a grand pronouncement; as a man who marries rich women just to kill them for their money (in an effort to support an invalid wife and young child), he knows of what he speaks.
		Through Verdoux, Chaplin can take swipes at the hypocrisies of a crumbling infrastructure of aristocracy, finance and, as Verdoux puts it, a "monoxide world of speed and confusion," but one is continually reminded that Verdoux himself relies on the chaos in the world, the disconnection between people.
		When he dies, Verdoux is alone, though one may well suspect that he prefers it that way, having rejected what to him are the dubious comforts of both the promise of lasting fame by way of a reporter or the promise of salvation by a priest.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1019 (584 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux (1947 b 121') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Verdoux learns he needs 50,000 francs to cover his stock purchases, or he is ruined.
		Verdoux goes home to his son Peter and his wife Mona, who is in a wheelchair.
		Verdoux is followed by them, and he goes outside with the girl.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1947/MonsieurVerdoux.html (465 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
		Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is a sad story about Monsieur Verdoux who is a swindling murderer that charms women whom he marries for their assets which he sells after he has murdered a newly acquired wife.
		Monsieur Verdoux is driven to commit murder as he feels determined to provide the best possible life style for his family.
		Monsieur Verdoux is the darkest of Charles Chaplin's films, and as in his other films it offers a social message.
	www.cinematica.org /archives/m/monsieur_verdoux.htm (148 words)

	Charles Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		There is one Chaplin film, however, which more than equalled any of Keaton's: Monsieur Verdoux, which was made in 1947, and perversely attacked at the time for being utterly unsentimental.
		Chaplin played Verdoux, a character inspired by Landru, the real-life seducer and murderer of rich women who operated during the first world war, when eligible men were scarce, and was executed soon afterwards.
		You could say that, in breaking the taboos of that (or any) society, Verdoux was actually illustrating its hypocrisy: at the time the film was made the millions of war casualties were being thought of as more a consequence of the fight for civilisation than as a painful illustration of the foolishness of power politics.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,,69310,00.html (544 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Monsieur Verdoux
		Verdoux has turned his sense of ethics on its head to fit in with the rest of his society.
		Verdoux is an elegant serpent whose fangs drip the disturbing truth about ethical double standard of American and European society between the two World Wars.
		While the print for Verdoux is not as sharp as some of the other Chaplin Collection entries (most of them were taken from 1970s reedits by Chaplin, whereas Verdoux languished for many years after its initial failure), it is still in great shape, with a remastered 5.1 soundtrack.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/monsieurverdoux.php (1438 words)

	Charles Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Verdoux (Chaplin), a mild-mannered family man of pre-war France, has hit upon a novel method of supporting his loved ones.
		This ironic twist sets the stage for the finale, when Verdoux, finally arrested for his crimes and on trial for his life, gently argues in his own defense that he is an "amateur" by comparison to those profiteers who build weapons for war.
		Alas, Monsieur Verdoux was released at a time when Chaplin was under a political cloud for his allegedly Communistic philosophy; too, it came out shortly after a well-publicized paternity suit involving Chaplin and Joan Barry.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/55/4455/features.php (556 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Monsieur Verdoux est un bon époux et un excellent père de famille, puisque attentionné et généreux avec les siens.
		Verdoux est un meurtrier, et cet aspect de monstre aussi charismatique que calculateur s'oppose intégralement au raffinement dont il fait preuve, à ses bonnes manières et à sa bonne éducation.
		Monsieur Verdoux est un grand moment cinématographique à vivre.
	cinema.krinein.com /Monsieur-Verdoux-719.html (503 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The film opens with a shot of a tombstone inscribed "Monsieur Verdoux 1880-1937," and in voice-over, Verdoux (Chaplin) describes how he lost his job as a bank clerk during the depression, and was forced to begin "liquidating" members of the opposite sex to support his family.
		We learn that Verdoux is an educated, almost effete man, who uses his considerable charms to seduce women and gain access to their bank accounts by nefarious methods.
		Verdoux uses pseudonyms, (implied) sex, fake stories of stock market crashes, and other devious means to extract money from his female victims, either stringing them along, or dispatching them with an undetectable poison once the well has run dry.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5794 (1385 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of "Monsieur Verdoux" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Verdoux loves his family and is at his core, a decent man, but his place in life has forced his hand at times.
		Monsieur Verdoux has its ups and downs, so it won't stand up against Chaplin's best pictures, but it has a unique texture that works well, while keeping Chaplin's basic style intact.
		Monsieur Verdoux is presented in full frame, as intended.
	www.dvdauthority.com /reviews.asp?reviewID=3814 (943 words)

	iHiltonHead.com :: Monsieur Verdoux
		He plays a dapper gent named Henri Verdoux (who assumes a number of identities), a civilized monster who marries wealthy women, then murders them (as we meet him, he's gathering roses as an incinerator ominously bellows smoke in the background) and collects their money to support his real family.
		Verdoux is largely viciously clever until it gets too heavy-handed, as evidenced when a woman he spares returns years later as the mistress of a munitions manufacturer.
		This debacle had nothing do with the quality of the picture but stemmed from the efforts of pressure groups which, incensed at Chaplin's defiance of accepted moral and economic standards, exerted all their power to persuade exhibitors not to show and the public not to attend it...
	www.ihiltonhead.com /shop/B00017LVQY/Monsieur_Verdoux.html (1080 words)

	Conclusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Monsieur Verdoux Chaplin played a man ruined by the Depression in France and thus forced to go into business "liquidating members of the opposite sex" in order to support his family.
		The 1930s were a period in which he redefined his art against the popular demand and the resistance that had always been implicit came to the surface.
		Monsieur Verdoux asserts that after the Depression "the rhythm was broken" in the world.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/film/chaplin/meth99.html (236 words)

	The World War 2 Store: Monsieur Verdoux
		"Monsieur Verdoux" managed to shock the American middle class, but not in the way its maker had intended...
		When Chaplin set about to tell the tale of MONSIEUR VERDOUX, he wanted an actress for the role of the indestructible Annabella who could hold her own in the comedy department.
		Without exception, critics hail the rowboat scene when Verdoux is trying vainly to murder the obnoxious Annabella as the highlight of the film.
	www.ww2incolor.com /shop.php?c=3&n=130&i=B00017LVQY&x=Monsieur_Verdoux (1237 words)

	MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Monsieur Verdoux est un film américain, réalisé par Charles Chaplin, sorti sur les écrans en 1947.
		Un employé de banque parisien, Henri Verdoux, est réduit au chômage par la crise de 1929.
		Pour subvenir aux besoins de sa femme invalide et de son fils, il épouse de riches veuves qui meurent rapidement après les noces.
	www.planete-virtuelle.org /encyclopedia/M/Monsieur_Verdoux (121 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux (Seattle Weekly)
		The ladykiller: Chaplin as the dapper, determined Verdoux.
		In the end, as fascism and WWII approach, Verdoux asks of murder, "Does not the world encourage it?" Clearly Chaplin is looking way beyond cheap explanations and revenge motives.
		Monsieur Verdoux — Chaplin's unlikely 1947 serial-killer comedy.
	www.seattleweekly.com /film/0004/film-miller.php (345 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Monsieur Verdoux at Epinions.com
		Monsieur Verdoux was not the only comedy from the 1940s with a story of a man plotting to kill his wife.
		In Monsieur Verdoux, there seems to be a correspondence between a woman's beauty and her grace of character.
		Correll and Nash are both lovely and charming, while Verdoux's would-be (and unattractive) victims include a vain socialite and a humorless complainer.
	briankoller.epinions.com /mvie-review-7789-89DF2A7-38FE3857-prod1 (620 words)

	Geek Culture - Monsieur Verdoux
		Monsieur Verdoux er en sort komedie baseret på en idé af Orson Welles og forfattet af Chaplin selv.
		Monsieur Verdoux er en glimrende sort komedie, der viser at Chaplin kan meget andet end komiske stumfilm.
		Men når Verdoux' planer begynder at gå galt, bliver filmen både spændende og sjov, og afslutningen er både rørende og flot udført uden påklistrede moralprædikener eller melodrama.
	www.geekculture.dk /arkiv.php3?reviewid=2114 (683 words)

	DVD.net : Monsieur Verdoux: SE - DVD Review
		Monsieur Henri Verdoux is what is known as a Bluebeard; a man who gets himself involved with relatively wealthy women before killing them and inheriting their fortunes, which he then takes home to his genuine and disabled wife and young son.
		Chaplin’s exploration of the deeper levels of a serial killer is a nice attempt and no doubt may have worked as a drama, but the injection of comedy here isn’t up to his usual loveable antics as the Tramp in the silent films of years before.
		The character of Henri Verdoux is based in reality upon a similar serial killer in France, though much of the similarity ends there.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3830 (1390 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
		Verdoux is being pursued by the police, and is also trying to woo the reluctant Madame Grosnay (Isobel Elsom).
		It is in some respects Chaplin's response to the Second World War, and a critique of the war mentality with its disregard for the sanctity of human life.
		Monsieur Verdoux is the last of Chaplin's better films, and although it does not rank up there with his best, it is still entertaining and worth a look.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4436 (1038 words)

	InfoDense - Web - Monsieur Verdoux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Monsieur Verdoux, atypically for a Chaplin film, features some familiar...
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	www.infodense.com /topic?i=Monsieur%20Verdoux (210 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux - Moviefone
		Rating: NA Synopsis: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." With...
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		Monsieur Verdoux Movie Monsieur Verdoux DVD movie $20.95 in stock at CD Universe, Subtitled a Comedy of Murders, this Charlie Chaplin film is about a middle-aged Bluebeard who...
	movies.aol.com /movie/monsieur-verdoux/2857/main (182 words)

	Charlie Chaplin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was from time to time to qualify this opinion; but Verdoux was certainly the flest of his comedies - the story of a serial killer who ends up beheaded on the guillotine.
		Verdoux is a bluebeard, an insignificant bank clerk, who, having lost his job during the Depression, evolves a scheme of marrying old spinsters and murdering them for their money.
		His legitimate wife is an invalid who lives in the country with her little son, but she is ignorant of her husband’s criminal enterprise.
	www.charliechaplin.com /rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=12 (287 words)

	Amazon.com: Monsieur Verdoux: DVD: Irving Bacon,Marjorie Bennett,Audrey Betz,Virginia Brissac,Charles Chaplin,Mady ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Plot Synopsis: Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family.
		Verdoux at the end is a man who has given up all hope, and he seems to mock his own fate and character while unmercifully unveiling his anger at the world.
		With modern audiences generally less inclined to judge a film by its "moral standing" (Kill Bill, anyone?), Monsieur Verdoux can be seen for what it is: A hilarious, complex sociological examination which identifies social ills while at the same time taking part in it.
	www.amazon.com /Monsieur-Verdoux-Irving-Bacon/dp/B00017LVQY (2145 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Monsieur Verdoux: The Chaplin Collection
		Chaplin plays Henri Verdoux, a dandified Parisian bank clerk who loses his career in the Great Depression.
		Verdoux devises another means to care for his dear wheelchair-bound wife and the young son he loves — he woos rich widows in other cities, marries them, then murders them for their money.
		Chaplin used Monsieur Verdoux's climax to indict the corrupted ethics and power politics of bourgeois society, a move that brought the full force of the Cold War red-baiters, who were already gunning for him, down on his head.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/m/monsieurverdoux.q.shtml (178 words)

	KDHX Film Review - Monsieur Verdoux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chaplin plays Henri Verdoux, a bank clerk caught in dire circumstances during the 1930s Depression.
		For example, Bosley Crowther in the New York Times called the 2-hour film occasionally tedious while noting it is “screamingly funny in spots” as well as “basically serious and bitter at the ironies of life.” Others also praised its honesty, noting Chaplin clarifies his sobering message before film's end.
		Monsieur Verdoux is certainly an accomplished and important film for fans of Chaplin, but be warned that the Little Tramp and his antics are not the heart of this very dark comedy.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/2006/monsieur-verdoux.html (297 words)

	Monsieur Verdoux : Leggi le Opinioni e compara i prezzi
		Monsieur Verdoux è uno dei tanti francesi che perdono il lavoro..
		Ma Monsieru Verdoux non è uno delle tante migliaia di francesi disoccupati che s'accontentano di lavori di fortuna.
		Monsieur Verdoux ha trovato un piano perfetto per consentire alla famiglia gli agi di un tempo.
	www.ciao.it /Monsieur_Verdoux__122715 (659 words)

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