Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Monsieur Verdoux : a comedy of murders / Chaplin Studios ; written and directed by Charles Chaplin.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Mk2 Editions : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2003.

Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD-Video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

standard version

video file DVD Video region 1

Summary:

In this dark comedy first released during WWII, Henri Vedoux, played by Charlie Chaplin, supports his family by first marrying, and then killing wealthy widows. 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."

Series:

Chaplin collection

Chaplin collection (Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.))

Subjects:

Fortune hunters -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Other Author:

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.

Raye, Martha.

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.

Correll, Mady.

Lewis, Robert, 1909-1997.

Elsom, Isobel, 1893-1981.

Chaplin Studios, Inc.

MK2 Productions.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.

Based on an idea by Orson Welles.

Special features include: Introduction by David Robinson ; documentary Chaplin today: Monsieur Verdoux ; plan drawings and sketches of set, photo gallery, film posters and trailers.

Director of photography, Roland Totheroh ; editor, Willard Nico ; music, Charles Chaplin.

Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Isobel Elsom.

DVD.

English or French soundtrack; optional subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai & Korean.

Contents:

Special features: Include introduction by David Robinson ; documentary Chaplin today: Monsieur Verdoux ; plan drawings and sketches of set, photo gallery, film posters and trailers.

ISBN:

0790771691

9780790771694

Publisher Number:

37652

Other Number:

54679705

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

141890

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Chaplin