Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
- marriage
- dark comedy
- villain
- polygamy
- great depression
- based on true story
- film noir
- serial killer
- black and white
- stock market crash
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlie Chaplin
Henri Verdoux
Mady Correll
Mona Verdoux
Allison Roddan
Peter Verdoux
Robert Lewis
Maurice Bottello
- Audrey Betz — Martha Bottello
- Martha Raye — Annabella Bonheur
- Ada May — Annette, Annabella's maid
- Isobel Elsom — Marie Grosnay
- Marjorie Bennett — Marie's Maid
- Helene Heigh — Yvonne La Salle, Marie's friend
- Margaret Hoffman — Lydia Floray
- Marilyn Nash — The Girl
- Irving Bacon — Pierre Couvais
- Edwin Mills — Jean Couvais
- Virginia Brissac — Carlotta Couvais
- Directed
- Charlie Chaplin
- Written
- Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 478 ratings
- Studio
- Charles Chaplin Productions, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
