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...CHARLIE CHAPLIN made life hard for all the other silent comedians. He matched them, laugh for laugh, with slapstick as clever and inventive as anyone's. He could string gags together, then top off the series with a clincher timed just right. So could all the other great comics--but Chaplin left all competitors far behind because on top of all the slapstick he was the most spirited and sympathetic character on the screen. His comedies affect me in an obscure way. I laugh, as at any good comedy, but then I feel a delicate warmth spreading all across...
...Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux is a sophisticated gentleman, quite unlike the character with the big feet and the penguin walk, but for the most part his face is as alive, his movement as adroit, his spirit every bit as poignant as that of the wonderful little tramp. Yet there is a savage distinction: Verdoux is a multiple bigamist and mass murderer. He marries rich women, murders them, quickly counts his money, expertly disposes of the bodies...
...black comedy full of social comment, Monsieur Verdoux is not at all like the Chaplin's silent films. Don't expect to be doubled up in laughter...
Monsieur Verdoux, in its New England premiere at the Harvard Square theater, is a "comedy for murderers" made in 1947 by Charlie Chaplin. It played in several cities this summer, but before this year it had had almost no exposure in the U.S. It came out when the witch hunts and blacklisting within the movie industry were just beginning, and Chaplin, a British citizen was one of the first people attacked...
...Gold Rush. "I thought you was a chicken," says Big Jim McKay to prospector Charlie Chaplin. "GEORGIA!" Charlie screams in big letters later on. This 1925 movie is so good that there would be little reason to write about anything else this week...