Monsieur Verdoux a comedy of murders /
Henri Verdoux is a dapper, elegant, ex-bank teller who marries, then subsequently murders wealthy women to support his own wife and child. A tender, compassionate man who won't step on a garden caterpillar and feeds stray cats, he nevertheless murders more than a dozen women before he is finall...
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| Language: | English |
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Beverly Hill, CA :
FoxVideo ; CBS/Fox Video,
[1992].
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| Series: | Charlie Chaplin centennial collection.
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| Summary: | Henri Verdoux is a dapper, elegant, ex-bank teller who marries, then subsequently murders wealthy women to support his own wife and child. A tender, compassionate man who won't step on a garden caterpillar and feeds stray cats, he nevertheless murders more than a dozen women before he is finally caught. On another level the film is an indictment of war in which mass murder is legalized, celebrated and paraded. "Killing is the enterprise by which your system prospers," Verdoux says. "As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison." |
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| Item Description: | Videocassette release of the 1947 motion picture. Feature is preceded by an ad for the Charlie Chaplin centennial collection. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. |
| Format: | VHS format; hi-fi. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Assoc. directors, Wheeler Dryden, Robert Florey, photography, Roland Totheroh ; editor, Willard Nico ; music, Charles Chaplin. |
| ISBN: | 079393009X |