The seventh look at one of my favorite movie dads. (#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 and #6)

Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

Charlie Chaplin’s controversial return to the silver screen pitted him as a father during troubling financial times. After losing his job as a bank clerk, Monsieur Verdoux turns to marrying older women with money and murdering them. On the surface it may seem like Verdoux should be nowhere near a Top 10 Movie Dads list, but of course this is Chaplin and the surface should be ignored (although it is quite humorous). As Verdoux points out towards the end of the film, murder is a part of business and when you compare his crimes with the crimes of the West, : “As a mass killer, I’m an amateur by comparison.” The film is funny (esp his scenes with Martha Raye) but not with out political commentary, Chaplin even goes so far as to point out that he and his family are vegetarians.

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