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...Verdoux, hurt far more people than did the unscrupulous lady killer of the title. M. Verdoux is a subtle and unsettling masterpiece, and the unscrupulous character Chaplin plays has more than his share of ambivalences. A real-life Verdoux inspired the film: a Frenchman named Landru married and killed eleven women...
...verse sex and killing has also characterized many of the notorious mass murderers of history. Gilles de Rais, body guard to Joan of Arc, con fessed at his trial to slaugh tering hundreds of boys in the 15th century "solely for the pleasure and delectation of lust." Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard, specialized in ravishing and killing lonely women until the guillotine ended his career in 1922. A German schoolteacher named Wagner, who was obsessed with an act of sodomy that he said he committed when he was 27, killed his family of five, nine other people and a number...
...Landru. Another Chabrol film, with a script by Francoise Sagan, this one is a kind of comedy of murders, based on the story of the French Bluebeard who killed off ten women during World War 1. Two of the victims: Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan...
...Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Francoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michèle Morgan are among Landru's victims...
...murkily vague. Fiasco in Milan. This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes. Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Françoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan are among Landru's victims. Love Is a Ball. The ball...