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Monsieur Verdoux - Der Frauenmörder von Paris

Originaltitel: Monsieur Verdoux
  • 1947
  • 16
  • 1 Std. 50 Min.
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Monsieur Verdoux - Der Frauenmörder von Paris (1947)
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
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Ein freundlicher aber zynischer Mann unterstützt seine Familie, indem er reiche Frauen heiratet und ermordet; der Job birgt jedoch einige Berufsrisiken.Ein freundlicher aber zynischer Mann unterstützt seine Familie, indem er reiche Frauen heiratet und ermordet; der Job birgt jedoch einige Berufsrisiken.Ein freundlicher aber zynischer Mann unterstützt seine Familie, indem er reiche Frauen heiratet und ermordet; der Job birgt jedoch einige Berufsrisiken.

  • Regie
    • Charles Chaplin
  • Drehbuch
    • Charles Chaplin
    • Orson Welles
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Charles Chaplin
    • Mady Correll
    • Allison Roddan
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    • Regie
      • Charles Chaplin
    • Drehbuch
      • Charles Chaplin
      • Orson Welles
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Charles Chaplin
      • Mady Correll
      • Allison Roddan
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    Charles Chaplin
    Charles Chaplin
    • Henri Verdoux - Alias Varnay - Alias Bonheur - Alias Floray
    Mady Correll
    Mady Correll
    • Mona Verdoux - His Wife
    Allison Roddan
    • Peter Verdoux - Their Son
    Robert Lewis
    Robert Lewis
    • Maurice Bottello - Verdoux's Friend
    Audrey Betz
    • Martha Bottello - His Wife
    Martha Raye
    Martha Raye
    • Annabella Bonheur
    Ada May
    Ada May
    • Annette - Her Maid
    • (as Ada-May)
    Isobel Elsom
    Isobel Elsom
    • Marie Grosnay
    Marjorie Bennett
    Marjorie Bennett
    • Her Maid
    Helene Heigh
    Helene Heigh
    • Yvonne - Marie's Friend
    Margaret Hoffman
    • Lydia Floray
    Marilyn Nash
    Marilyn Nash
    • The Girl
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Pierre - Carlotta's Husband
    Edwin Mills
    • Jean Couvais
    Virginia Brissac
    Virginia Brissac
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    Almira Sessions
    • Lena Couvais
    Eula Morgan
    • Phoebe Couvais
    Bernard Nedell
    Bernard Nedell
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    • (as Bernard J. Nedell)
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      • Charles Chaplin
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      • Charles Chaplin
      • Orson Welles
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    9AlsExGal

    Probably Chaplin's best sound film...

    ... not that he made that many of them.

    Chaplin plays Henri Verdoux, a man who goes about marrying and then killing upper middle class middle-aged women for their money and property. If he was known to be around at the time of their death, he disposes of their bodies in such a way that they will never be found. If he was not known to be around, then he doesn't bother to dispose of their bodies and just takes the cash he needs with him, leaving like he was never there.

    It's awhile before it is revealed that Verdoux was what we now call "laid off" from his job at a bank after 30 years during the Depression that gripped Europe after WWI and as a result of that he is on a tear, married to multiple soon to be murder victims at a time, in order to provide for his actual crippled wife and child and eventually retire from this sordid business.

    You never actually see Chaplin do any violence. That would just be too stunning of an image. So everything is insinuated, such as him disposing of the property of a recently deceased wife while the incinerator out back has been going full steam for three days. Martha Raye plays one of Verdoux's more annoying and lively wives, and if you think she is too good of a comedienne for Verdoux just to visit and abruptly kill her, you'd be right. His near attempts are hilariously disrupted, including one attempt that is stopped by a group of yodlers with binoculars. Will he eventually be successful? I'd say watch and find out.

    In the parts of the film where Chaplin combines action, slapstick, and dialogue, the production is outstanding. At the end where he relies more on dialogue alone, I wouldn't say it drags, but I would say it is a bit "off". I get that Chaplin is trying to compare the furor that is created over the murder of a dozen people by a serial killer to society's indifference over millions dying as a result of war or famine, but I think the rather sentimental one liners he throws out blunt and muddle his message considerably.
    8gavin6942

    Chaplin's Finest Sound Film?

    A suave but cynical man (Charles Chaplin) supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

    This film is brilliant, because it is not just entertaining, but also has a strong message. On the surface, it is a man who marries women and kills them in order to get their money. This in itself makes for a good film (and is somewhat risqué for the 1940s). But then, it is also a metaphor for society -- capitalism, imperialism, war... Chaplin takes on the Great Depression and the war industry.

    Most people know Chaplin for his silent films and tramp character, but he really became a strong filmmaker in his later years. This film, along with "Great Dictator" and "King in New York" are among his best works. It is a shame that for whatever reason he is not remembered for the second half of his career.
    7bkoganbing

    Far from the Little Tramp

    As Charlie Chaplin put it when the tramp finally talked in The Great Dictator the magic was gone. Chaplin felt he had to come up with another character in order to continue his career and he got away from the lovable Little Tramp as far as he could with Monsieur Verdoux.

    A whole lot of people were shocked when Monsieur Verdoux came out and instead of the Tramp we got a Bluebeard murderer. Black comedy was not a genre popular in the USA at that time and a lot of people hated this film. None more so than Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper who as a good conservative Republican cheered on the coming blacklist and beat the drums for Chaplin's deportation. No accident that Chaplin was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee at the time Monsieur Verdoux came out.

    Based on the famous French mass criminal Henry Desire Landru, Monsieur Verdoux tells the story of a bank clerk who lost his job and to support his family started marrying and murdering rich women. Verdoux keeps quite a schedule because he's marrying several of them at the same time. But always returns to wife Mady Correll and son Allison Roddan.

    Funniest marriage is to Martha Raye who not only is he unsuccessful in killing, she nearly does him in on a couple of occasions strictly by accident. That raucous laugh might elicit sympathy from a jury if anyone ever heard it and was condemned to live with it even part time.

    With the marriage to Raye comes the film's funniest sequence Chaplin trying to kill Raye when they were in a boat on a lake in Switzerland. It will not escape your attention that the sequence is borrowed from Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy which was already filmed in 1931 and would shortly be filmed again in 1951 as A Place In The Sun. Ironic indeed how the same plot gambits can be played for laughs or deadly serious.

    Second funniest is Raye showing up at Chaplin's wedding to Isobel Elsom whom he has targeted. It forces him to leave her at the altar not knowing at that time how lucky she was.

    Truth be told some of Chaplin's left wing political views are grafted into the film somewhat forcibly. It's what got Hedda Hopper's undergarments in such a twist. Still this an amusing film and not fairly judged by a lot of people at the time it came out.
    dougdoepke

    Humor Worth Pondering

    A satire on a serial killer is not your everyday movie fare. I can see why audiences of that day were turned off by the Little Tramp's sudden homicidal turn. Of course, it's all treated with a light comedic hand until the moralizing end. Still, Chaplin's subtext comes through clearly at certain points-, such that unemployment can drive men to extremes when they've got a family to support.

    On the other hand, not every man, of course, turns to fleecing rich widows and then dispatching them in cold-blooded fashion. But that brings him to his second point--- namely "numbers sanctify". Kill one person and you're a murderer; kill a thousand and you're a hero. Here it appears he's referring to the state that historically kills by the thousands in the name of the patriotism. Remember, the movie's coming right after the close of the horrific WWII, and he finds the point ironic.

    But Verdoux's not through. Capitalism is indirectly indicted for its periodic booms and busts that lead to joblessness, and millions upon millions for munitions manufacturers who prosper during wartime. As for the consolations of religion that come at the end, the gentleman killer appears indifferent without being insulting. Since Chaplin's the sole screenwriter, it's no stretch to believe he's speaking for himself on these matters. Given this rather wholesale indictment of many of the West's leading institutions, small wonder he left the country shortly after under a cloud of controversy.

    Nonetheless, the movie hits its comedic highpoints with Martha Raye as the loudly vulgar Annabella. Try as he does to do her in, she manages to comically thwart him at every turn. That scene in the fishing boat's a classic. All his polished charm and oily flattery just slide by her obnoxious silliness. Raye makes a perfect foil and an inspired piece of casting.

    Of course, some of the beguiling Little Tramp remains in Verdoux's character, as when he befriends the penniless girl (Nash), or in that supremely ironic moment when he ambles Tramp-style toward the guillotine. All in all, it's a strange little movie that was apparently shelved for years for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, it was rather gutsy for Chaplin to take such chances with his established character and at Cold War's outset. It's fairly humorous until you think about its serious points, which are still worth pondering.
    8gsygsy

    fine work

    This movie is a fine example of a genre which attained enormous popularity during and in the decade after World War Two. These so-called "black comedies" (a term perhaps alluding to the funereal subject matter, ranging from fluffy (Noel Coward's "Bithe Spirit" - on stage in 1941, filmed in 1945) to darkly absurd (Ealing's "The Ladykillers" in 1955), turned death into situation comedy. Falling out of favour in the 60s, black comedy returned somewhat in the work of Robert Altman, before being brought back to full glory by the Coen Brothers.

    Although the most enduringly successful example of black comedy is perhaps "Arsenic and Old Lace" (stage 1941/film 1944), two of the very greatest filmmakers blessed it with their contributions. Alfred Hitchcock to some extent incarnated the essence of it every time he introduced an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", but his definitive statement - "The Trouble with Harry" - just preceded the TV shows in 1955.

    Charles Chaplin's dark vision, "Monsieur Verdoux", was released in 1947, just before the anti-Communist cries against him were to drive him out of America. A political backdrop is either entirely absent or implicit in the other examples of the genre I've mentioned, but Chaplin makes it explicit, and some might say that, to some extent, this unbalances the last reel of an otherwise utterly brilliant film. Others perhaps will be more sympathetic to the historical context. For me, while completely supporting Chaplin's observations concerning the business of war, the heavy underlining of his message does seem a flaw when viewing the film today.

    All the same, "Monsieur Verdoux" is a magnificent achievement, not least in its wonderful gallery of characters, many played by character actors rarely seen on screen. Two in particular stand out, both playing wives of the much-married Verdoux: dour, unsmiling Margaret Hoffman, who goes to her death in an extraordinary scene of darkness followed by sudden light; and Martha Raye, in her best cinematic role, as the wife Verdoux fails to kill. Raye is such an explosion of energy and personality that the screen can barely contain her. To watch her and Chaplin in their scenes together is sheer joy.

    The script is witty, the photography excellent, and Chaplin's penchant for sentimentality is held well in check. It is, except for the end, an unusually subtle movie, its tone completely in keeping with its French setting.

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      Verdoux's quote "One murder makes a villain; millions a hero" is taken from the abolitionist Bishop Beilby Porteus (1731-1808).
    • Patzer
      When Monsieur Verdoux states the area of the house being sold he mentions the lengths in feet. As the film is set in France, he should have used meters.
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      Henri Verdoux: Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!

    • Alternative Versionen
      The West German theatrical version was cut by approximately 15 minutes.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Schwer verliebt (2001)

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      • 6. Juni 1952 (Westdeutschland)
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      • Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, Kalifornien, USA
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      • Charles Chaplin Productions
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      • 2.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
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