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FiresonthePlain

An underappreciated gem.

14 years 4 months ago

akuma587

This is one of Chaplin's worst of his feature films. If you want a later Chaplin work that is actually pretty good, watch the film that came after this, Limelight.

13 years ago

Big A2

I agree with Welles, this would have been a better movie had he directed it. Still a good flick, but, knowing the history of the movie's making, it's a case of what could have been.

11 years 3 months ago

ClassicLady

In my opinion, it's not one of Chaplin's best works. It has it's moments but they come mostly at the end and are not really the comedic parts.

11 years 1 month ago

Chaplin's character keeps alive the unique mannerisms of his tramp character but projects them onto an even more explicit (seemingly) psycotic. As usual Chaplin-fares go, this leads to an ending on a political note, which would later get him condemned in Hollywood. Nevertheless, much cynical hilarity ensues at a steady pace and albeit most of it is derived from "silent" gags it deserves a place as a classic talkie.

10 years 3 months ago

Yousef Mousa

one of Chaplin finest, extreme beauty

9 years 7 months ago

nbats

https://youtu.be/N8lXHCXr_HA

4 years 1 month ago

Siskoid

When Chaplin started doing talkies, they were bold and often controversial affairs, as is the case with Monsieur Verdoux, a black comedy in which he plays a fictionalized version of French bigamist and wife killer Henri Landru. Monsieur Verdoux is certainly more prone to slapstick, and this "comedy of murders" includes a number of sequences in which he tries and fails to kill his most obnoxious wife played by Martha Raye. They make a fine comedy double act, and Chaplin's trick is to make Verdoux so sympathetic, you will be on his side. This criminal mastermind does, after all, have a real family somewhere for which he is doing all this, at least in his mind, and his justification, a bleak meditation on the corruption of the world in the Depression/build-up to WWII era, satirically juxtaposes his crimes to larger crimes committed by businesses and states. And then there's the touching relationship between him and a young woman he intends to try a new poison on. So tonally, this is a strange one. If you go with it, it will reward you. But the killing of women is not a joke that can easily be laughed at.

3 years 8 months ago

josue.a.o

A very impressive movie.
Chaplin mixed with Hitchcock ;).
A must-see movie, with moral and politically challenging messages.

2 years 4 months ago

deckard.

chaplin again tries to make another political magnum opus after great dictator but this time he mixes up his arguments for the final big argument sake.

deep down all that -i'm sure it is- good willed political message, there is "in a world like this, who may blame the petty criminals", and that's just wrong. this is a big miss on part of chaplin.

and technical wise, it is a very weak movie too. all in all, a "bad" movie, this is.

1 year 11 months ago