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• Fan Rant: Charlie Chaplin's Talkies Deserve More Respect

  Published: June 17, 2008, 9:02 pm

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  barber and an exaggerated Adolf Hitler (or "Hinkel," rather). Monsieur Verdoux, in which he plays a frustrated man whose losses during the Great Depression lead to a twisted scheme where he marries, murders and robs rich women, represented something else altogether: Chaplin's only brooding melodrama, the occasional laughs are almost

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