Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000393
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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XXXI "Monsieur Verdoux" "Monsieur Verdoux" is the most controversial and, financially, the least successful of Chaplin's films. Suggested by the career of Landru, the French Bluebeard, it was based on an idea by Orson Welles. Chaplin worked two years on the script alone. The first title, "Lady Killer," was abandoned. Production was delayed until June 1946. Then the film was shot in the record time — for Chaplin — of twelve weeks. Despite its more than fifty sets, its several established and high-salaried actors, and increased general costs, it is unlikely that its production outlay reached the advertised two million dollars. In "Verdoux" Chaplin finally and completely abandons his famous tramp, of whom there had been some surviving traces in "The Great Dictator." Verdoux's make-up and character are entirely different. Gone are the baggy trousers and the famous mustache. Outwardly Verdoux is a dapper, middle-class bank clerk, fashionably attired and sporting a little French mustache. And the character is no pathetic, blundering underdog now, but a cynical modern businessman whose line happens to be murder for profit. The picture is intended to be, not so much a comedy about a modern Bluebeard, as a satire on the modern business and war-minded world. In an advance interview Chaplin remarked: "The picture has moral value, I believe. Von Clausewitz said that