Monsieur Verdoux
A Paris bank clerk of thirty years' standing is let go in the Depression and takes up a second profession: courting, marrying and liquidating provincial widows to keep an invalid wife and a son in a house outside the city. He runs several identities at once, tests a poison that leaves no trace, and cannot finish off one woman who keeps surviving him. Chaplin dropped the tramp for a murderer and saw it picketed and withdrawn.
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