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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Monsieur Verdoux : a comedy of murders / Chaplin Studios, Inc. ; an original story written by Charles Chaplin ; directed by Charles Chaplin.

Edition:

DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]

℗1947

Description:

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).

Summary:

Chaplin is a twentieth-century Bluebeard, an enigmatic family man who goes to extreme lengths to support his wife and child, attempting to bump off a series of wealthy widows.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 652

Criterion collection ; 652.

Subjects:

Fortune hunters -- Drama.

Serial murderers -- Drama.

Married men -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Genre:

Dark comedy films.

Other Author:

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, author of screenplay, director, actor, composer (expression)

Raye, Martha, actor.

Correll, Mady, actor.

Lewis, Robert, 1909-1997, actor.

May, Ada, 1896-1978, actor.

Elsom, Isobel, 1893-1981, actor.

Bennett, Marjorie, 1894-1982, actor.

Bacon, Irving, 1893-1965, actor.

Brissac, Virginia, 1883-1979, actor.

Sessions, Almira, 1888-1974, actor.

Nedell, Bernard, 1898-1972, actor.

Frawley, William, 1887-1966, actor.

Totheroh, Roland H., 1890-1967, director of photography.

Beckman, John, 1898-1989, art director.

Nico, Willard, film editor.

Tetrick, Drew, costume designer.

Schrager, Rudy, 1900-1983, musical director.

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, contributor.

Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy, essayist.

Bazin, André, 1918-1958, essayist.

Chaplin Studios, Inc.

Janus Films.

MK2 Productions.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Based on an idea by Orson Welles.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.

DVD under license from Janus Films and MK2 Productions.

Special features: Chaplin today: "Monsieur Verdoux" (a 2003 program); Charlie Chaplin and the American Press; New video essay featuring an audio interview with actress Marilyn Nash; Radio advertisements and trailers; Booklet features an essay by critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and reprinted pieces by Chaplin and critic André Bazin.

Director of photography, Roland Totheroh ; art director, John Beckman ; film editor, Willard Nico ; wardrobe, Drew Tetrick ; music composed by Charles Chaplin ; arranged and directed by Rudolph Schrager.

Charlie Chaplin, Martha Raye, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz, Ada-May, Isobel Elsom, Marjorie Bennett, Helene Heigh, Margaret Hoffman, Marilyn Nash, Irving Bacon, Edwin Mills, Virginia Brissac, Almira Sessions, Eula Morgan, Bernard J. Nedell, Charles Evans, William Frawley.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; PCM mono.

English dialogue with optional English subtitles.

ISBN:

9781604657050

1604657057

9786314986704 : DVD

6314986702 : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC2241D

Other Number:

827237397

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

956209

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Monsieur