Monsieur Verdoux
A Comedy of Murders.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Performer: | Martha Raye, Isobel Elsom, Marilyn Nash, Mady Correll, Robert Lewis, Irving Bacon & Marjorie Bennett | |
| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Edited by | Willard Nico | |
| Composition by | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Cinematography by | Curt Courant | |
| Art Direction by | John Beckman | |
| Produced by | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Director of Photography: | Rollie Totheroh & Wallace Chewing |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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An assured combination of suspense and pitch-black comedy, MONSIEUR VERDOUX proceeds as a series of sketches, mixing light slapstick with snappier dialogue than anything Chaplin had attempted before. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
An engrossingly wry and paradoxical film, screamingly funny in places, sentimental in others, sometimes slow and devoted to an unusually serious and sobering argument.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
a pitch-black, arguably bitter comedy that wasn't so much a departure for Chaplin (he had, after all, lampooned Hitler in his previous film) as it was an opportunity to fully engage with his darker comedic impulses
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Perfection? Arguably not; Verdoux has clunky moments and some flat casting, but with an able assist from the great comedian Martha Raye, Chaplin's latter-day greatness is readily apparent.
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Seattle Times
Shapes up as Chaplin's most startling, most invigorating movie: its icy temperature is positively bracing after the hot syrup of his earlier work.
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Time Out
Monsieur Verdoux is an acerbic and intelligent movie that remains unique for the public of our era. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
[T]he pitch-dark satire of MONSIEUR VERDOUX seems timelier than ever.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Subtitled a "Comedy of Murders," this Charlie Chaplin film is about a middle-aged Bluebeard who murders wives for their money. An off-beat comedy which was ahead of it's time but is now considered as a Chaplin favorite. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Screenplay.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 59,187
- UPC: 715515103916
- Shipping Weight: 0.32/lbs (approx)
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