“Charlie Chaplin : Filming Monsieur Verdoux”. www.charliechaplin.com. Roy Export S.A.S.. 2024年5月14日閲覧。 “Charles Chaplin, without modesty, described Monsieur Verdoux as “the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career”.”
“Charlie Chaplin : Filming Monsieur Verdoux”. www.charliechaplin.com. Roy Export S.A.S.. 2024年6月13日閲覧。 “The idea was originally suggested by Orson Welles, as a project for a dramatised documentary on the career of the legendary French murder Henri Désiré Landru - who was executed in 1922, ... . Chaplin was so intrigued by the idea that he paid Welles $5000 for it, with the agreement that the film would carry the credit “Based on an idea by Orson Welles”. In later years Welles claimed that he had himself written a script for the film, but this is unlikely - certainly the written agreement between Chaplin and Welles makes no mention of it. ... Chaplin said that the character of Verdoux was also in part inspired by Thomas Wainwright, a 19th century English forger, murderer and intellectual.”
