Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Released | 1947-09-26 | Comedy-Crime | 124m | 7.9/10
Rex Bailey (Assistant Director) | Curt Courant (Director of Photography) | Robert Florey (Assistant Director) | Rudy Schrager (Music Director) | Wheeler Dryden (Assistant Director) | Roland Totheroh (Director of Photography) | Charlie Chaplin (Writer) | John Beckman (Art Direction) | Orson Welles (Original Concept) | Willard Nico (Editor) | Harry Crocker (Unit Publicist) | Georg Kreisler (Music) | Johnny Kascier (Stand In) | William Knight (Makeup Artist) | Russell Birdwell (Unit Publicist) |
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.
Charlie Chaplin (Henri Verdoux) | Mady Correll (Mona Verdoux) | Allison Roddan (Peter Verdoux) | Robert Lewis (Maurice Bottello) | Audrey Betz (Martha Bottello) | Martha Raye (Annabella Bonheur) | Ada May (Annette, Annabella's maid) | Isobel Elsom (Marie Grosnay) | Marjorie Bennett (Marie's Maid) | Helene Heigh (Yvonne La Salle, Marie's friend) | Margaret Hoffman (Lydia Floray) | Marilyn Nash (The Girl) | Irving Bacon (Pierre Couvais) | Edwin Mills (Jean Couvais) | Virginia Brissac (Carlotta Couvais) | Almira Sessions (Lena Couvais) | Eula Morgan (Phoebe Couvais) | Bernard Nedell (Prefect of Police) | Charles Evans (Detective Morrow) | William Frawley (Jean La Salle) | Arthur Hohl (Real Estate Agent) | Barbara Slater (Flower Girl) | Fritz Leiber (Father Fareaux) | Vera Marshe (Mrs. Vicki Darwin) | John Harmon (Joe Darwin) | Richard Abbott (Defense Attorney (uncredited)) | Warren Ashe (Garden Party Guest (uncredited)) | Gertrude Astor (Garden Party Guest (uncredited)) | Wilbur Mack (Garden Party Guest (uncredited)) | Barry Norton (Garden Party Guest (uncredited)) | Edna Purviance (Garden Party Guest (uncredited)) | Herbert Evans (Garden Party Guest Getting Sprayed (uncredited)) | Ralph Brooks (Sidewalk Cafe Customer (uncredited)) | Wheaton Chambers (Pharmacist (uncredited)) | James Craven (Bismo - Annabella's Friend (uncredited)) | Joseph Crehan (Broker (uncredited)) | Bert Stevens (Stock Broker (uncredited)) | Albert D'Arno (Waiter (uncredited)) | George Dee (Waiter (uncredited)) | Carlo Schipa (Waiter (uncredited)) | Ralph Montgomery (French Waiter (uncredited)) | Cyril Delevanti (Postman (uncredited)) | Wheeler Dryden (Salesman (uncredited)) | Elspeth Dudgeon (Old Woman (uncredited)) | Ella Ethridge (Woman in the Street (uncredited)) | Franklyn Farnum (Victim of the Stock Market Crash (uncredited)) | Joseph Granby (Bailiff (uncredited)) | Boyd Irwin (Prison Official (uncredited)) | Pierre Watkin (Prison Official (uncredited)) | Colin Kenny (Police Detective (uncredited)) | Bert LeBaron (Cafe Royal Doorman (uncredited)) | Ruth Lee (Gossipy Woman Hanging Clothes (uncredited)) | Carl M. Leviness (Reveler at Can Can Club (uncredited)) | Therese Lyon (Jeannette - the Verdoux Maid (uncredited)) | Lester Matthews (Prosecutor (uncredited)) | Harold Miller (Onlooker in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)) | Paul Newlan (Garden Party Guest (uncredited)) | Albert Petit (Bystander (uncredited)) | Frank Reicher (Doctor (uncredited)) | Addison Richards (Bank Manager (uncredited)) | Charles Wagenheim (Bank Manager's Friend (uncredited)) | Suzanne Ridgeway (Night Club Patron (uncredited)) | Jeffrey Sayre (Wedding Guest (uncredited)) | William Self (Max - a Reporter (uncredited)) | C. Montague Shaw (Mortgage Banker (uncredited)) | Nanette Vallon (Maid (uncredited)) | Herb Vigran (Reporter (uncredited)) |
