Today marks the anniversary of the release date of one of my favorite movies, Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Suggested by Orson Welles, Verdoux is Chaplin's comical take on the Bluebeard story. The plot concerns a banker who has lost his job (Chaplin) and now supports his family by romancing, marrying and killing women of independent means. Chaplin uses this story […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:33AM on April 11, 2014