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...Monsieur Verdoux. Chaplin's cold, brilliant tragicomedy about a free-enterprising murderer (TIME...
...Monsieur Verdoux. Chaplin's cold, brilliant tragicomedy about a free-enterprising murderer (TIME...
...Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME...
...Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME, May 5) which reopened in Washington last week...
...thirst of movie audiences for a not-too-delicate combination of the two M's, marriage and murder, evidently has not yet been quenched. Bouncing back after "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," "Monsicur Verdoux," and a number of Grade B blood-curdlers, our ready producers have served up a Bluebeard in petticoats this time. Margaret Lockwood, sultry as an English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed...