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.
Elenco: Charlie Chaplin , Mady Correll , Allison Roddan , Robert Lewis , Audrey Betz , Martha Raye , Ada May , Isobel Elsom , Marjorie Bennett , Helene Heigh , Margaret Hoffman , Marilyn Nash , Irving Bacon , Edwin Mills , Virginia Brissac , Almira Sessions , Eula Morgan , Bernard Nedell , Charles Evans , William Frawley , Arthur Hohl , Barbara Slater , Fritz Leiber , Vera Marshe , John Harmon , Richard Abbott , Warren Ashe , Gertrude Astor , Wilbur Mack , Barry Norton , Edna Purviance , Herbert Evans , Ralph Brooks , Wheaton Chambers , James Craven , Joseph Crehan , Bert Stevens , Albert D'Arno , George Dee , Carlo Schipa , Ralph Montgomery , Cyril Delevanti , Wheeler Dryden , Elspeth Dudgeon , Ella Ethridge , Franklyn Farnum , Joseph Granby , Boyd Irwin , Pierre Watkin , Colin Kenny , Bert LeBaron , Ruth Lee , Carl M. Leviness , Therese Lyon , Lester Matthews , Harold Miller , Paul Newlan , Albert Petit , Frank Reicher , Addison Richards , Charles Wagenheim , Suzanne Ridgeway , Jeffrey Sayre , William Self , C. Montague Shaw , Nanette Vallon , Herb Vigran .