Plot: After losing his job at the bank where he'd worked for 30 years, Henri Verdoux must find a new way to support his family; Mona and son, Peter. His new occupation is to marry women - then kill them off once he gets his hands on their money. He proves to be quite adept at it, using several aliases, he has several wives at any given time. When his fortune is wiped out in a stock market crash he seems to realise his own end is near and gives himself up when he's recognised by a victim's relative.
Alternative Plot: Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is a dapper Parisian family man who loses his job as a bank clerk. In order to support his wife and child, he devises a plan to woo and marry rich widows under a variety of aliases, then murder them for their money. His scheme works until his 14th victim, the loud-mouthed Annabella Bonheur (Martha Raye), proves impossible to kill, and he takes pity on a beautiful but down-on-her-luck prostitute whom he was going to test a poison on.
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