Monsieur Verdoux

“Chaplin changes! Can you?”

Henri Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin), a loyal and capable bank clerk, loses his job and needs money to keep his wife Mona (Mady Correll) and their young son Peter (Allison Roddan) housed and fed. His answer is to marry wealthy widows, one after another, and murder them. Chaplin, who also directed, plays the killer in the soft manner of his old tramp, a black comedy built on a man who takes his work seriously.