Этот фильм Чаплина всегда был для меня самым любимым. С самого первого просмотра.
Тогда я впервые услышала его голос!
А еще приятно было увидеть его и в другом образе, помимо Бродяги. Какой же он харизматичный!
Фильм просто великолепен! Сколько лет я его смотрю и люблю Чарли, за его гениальность!
И та мысль, которую несет фильм - о бизнесе & убийстве ...

Judge: Monsieur Verdoux, you have been found guilty. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?

Henri Verdoux: Oui, monsieur, I have. However remiss the prosecutor has been in complimenting me, he at least admits that I have brains.
Thank you, Monsieur, I have. And for thirty-five years I used them honestly. After that, nobody wanted them.
So I was forced to go into business for myself. As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it?
Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing?
Has it not blown unsuspecting women and little children to pieces? And done it very scientifically?
As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison. However, I do not wish to lose my temper, because very shortly,
I shall lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence,
I have this to say: I shall see you all... very soon... very soon.

Henri Verdoux: I have made my peace with God, my conflict is with man.

Henri Verdoux: Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Henri Verdoux: Wars, conflict - it's all business.
One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!

Priest: May the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Henri Verdoux: Why not? After all, it belongs to Him.



Based on real-life French murderer Henri Désiré Landru, who was guillotined in 1922.

The producers of the film were sued in 1948 by Parisian bank employee Henri Verdoux.

Chaplin regarded the film as "the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career".

According to Robert Lewis, "It was easy to define the position held by Charlie Chaplin in the making of "Monsieur Verdoux."
He was everything - writer, star, director, producer, and casting director, as well as supervisor of all other departments:
costumes, scenery, make-up, lighting, shooting schedules, camera set-ups, and the musical score.
He also crawled around on the floor with a knife, scraping up bits of old chewing gum stuck to the floor.
For good measure he'd entertain the troops between shots with hilarious imitations,
such as William Gillette's inanimate playing in "Sherlock Holmes,"
a Kabuki actor pounding his feet on the floor, and crossing his eyes with pain,
or Maurice Schwartz, the Yiddish actor, intoning a speech while twirling an imaginary beard that went clear to the floor."