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Great Depression | Villain
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Best Foreign Language Film | 1953 | Charlie
Best Foreign Language Film | 1953 | Charlie
Best American Film Bedste amerikanske film | 1949 | Charlie
Best Writing Original Screenplay | 1948 | Charlie
Budget 2,000,000 USD
Verdoux's quote "One murder makes a villain; millions a hero" is taken from the abolitionist Bishop Beilby Porteus (1731-1808).
Based on real-life convicted French murderer Henri Désiré Landru, who was executed by guillotine in 1922.
The film was a colossal box-office flop on its 1947 release, despite being ardently championed by writer-critic James Agee, who considered Sir Charles Chaplin's acting performance the greatest male performance he had ever seen in films.
Sir Charles Chaplin regarded the film as "the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career."
Sir Charles Chaplin bought the idea for the film from Orson Welles for $5,000. Welles had been contemplating making a dramatized documentary of the real story of French serial killer Henri Landru.
"Henri Verdoux: Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!"
"Henri Verdoux: It's the approach of death that terrifies. The Girl: I suppose, if the unborn knew of the approach of life, they'd be just as terrified."
