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Charles Chaplin chose exactly the wrong time to re-invent himself, at least as far as the American moviegoing public was concerned. After being hailed for the boldness of his Hitler-bashing 1940 ...

In 1942, Charlie Chaplin turned Orson Welles’s idea for a docudrama about Henri Landru, the real-life French Bluebeard of the nineteen-teens, into a comedy, “Monsieur Verdoux” (Criterion). Updating ...

Monsieur Verdoux, about a contemporary Bluebeard who makes a career out of marrying wealthy women and then murdering them for their money, is one of Charles Chaplin’s most controversial films. It also ...

A sobering thought occurred to me while rewatching Charles Chaplin’s once-controversial comedy “Monsieur Verdoux”: “Juno” and Judd Apatow’s crudely terrific movies notwithstanding, I hadn’t seen a ...

“Monsieur Verdoux” is part of a coincidental Charlie Chaplin trifecta that’s joined by “The Gold Rush” (the recent DVD release of which, by Criterion, I discuss in the magazine this week) and ...

A commercial disaster that essentially ended Charlie Chaplin's American film career, the 1947 "Monsieur Verdoux" has long since been rehabilitated as a classic. Critic James Agee wrote a three-part ...

You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the secret and forgotten history of 20 th-century Hollywood, is back for a new season. When each episode airs, creator and host Karina Longworth will ...

“Monsieur Verdoux” (Charles Chaplin, 1947) at 7 a.m. on AMC. Chaplin’s elegant “Bluebeard” comedy casts him in a role the 1947 public didn’t want to see: as a mild-mannered little French bank clerk ...

Comedy based on the characterization of a modern Parisian Bluebeard treads danger shoals indeed. Even if the accent were more effective, the fundamentals are unsound when it's revealed that Chaplin ...