Monsieur Verdoux Charlie Chaplin became an iconic figure throughout the world as "The Little Felllow" or "Tramp" in films over a three decade span. So it was quite a departure when, in 1947, he unleashed this "comedy of murders" with himself as a French banker turned ruthless bluebeard. While both a critical and financial failure at the time, Verdoux has since been recognized as one of Chaplin's finest and most sophisticated creations, as well as ahead of it's time in it's subtle clever indictment of the system and social structure.