Henri Verdoux is the bank teller who marries and subsequently murders wealthy women in order to support his own wife and child. Chaplin's dark comedy was a commercial failure, rejected by a popular audience not ready to see the "Little Tramp" take on the role of a suave serial killer. Yet it may be the best film from the latter part of Chaplin's career. Wickedly witty, especially the scenes involving Martha Raye as an intended victim who comically evades her new husband's lethal traps.

Charles Chaplin---USA---1947---124 mins.

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