Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

Credits include: Dead Poets Society, Spellbound, Limelight, Saboteur and The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a member of the French New Wave, colleague of Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette. His trademarks were very unique thriller movies, like his masterpiece The Butcher.