Margaret Hoffman

Movies3

• Movie7.7

  ComedyCrime

  The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

  Monsieur Verdoux

  1947 · 491 votes

• Movie7.2

  Drama

  When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

  The Corn Is Green

  1945 · 39 votes

• Movie5.8

  TV MovieDocumentary

  A short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an interview with Claude Chabrol, whose 1963 film "Landru" concerns the same serial killer that inspired Chaplin's film.

  Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux

  2003 · 7 votes