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Auction History Result 3x679 MONSIEUR VERDOUX Czech 11x16 '74 cool Grygar art of Charlie Chaplin as gentleman Bluebeard! Date Sold 6/15/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1974 Original (from the first Czech release) Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Czechoslovakian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/4" x 16" [29 x 41 cm]) (Learn More) Monsieur Verdoux, the classic 1947 Charlie Chaplin romantic marriage crime murder serial killer black comedy ("Chaplin Changes! Can You?"; "The Story of a Modern French Bluebeard"; "Hysterical Laughter! Haunting Romance! Shocking Drama!"; "The sensational New Comedy"; "In 'Monsieur Verdoux' there is a peculiar intensity of drama...an even more peculiar hysteria of laughter -and a strange love story that hurts."; "Beauty on the block!"; "What will be the fate of these lovely girls in the hands of the modern Bluebeard?"; about a man who repeatedly marries women and then kills them for their money; Chaplin manages to make this hysterically funny at times, and the movie really does make you think about why killing is acceptable in war, but is not in peacetime; as Chaplin says in the movie, "Numbers sanctify", asking why it is OK for a country to kill thousands during wartime; from an idea suggested by Orson Welles) starring Charles Chaplin (in the title role as Henri Verdoux), Martha Raye (who proves herself to be Chaplin's equal, as an indestructible wife who just refuses to be killed!), Isobel Elsom, Robert Lewis, and Marilyn Nash (billed as "introducing for the first time Marilyn Nash") NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Milan Grygar Condition: fine. The poster is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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