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1940s Satirical Movies

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Monsieur Verdoux(1947)

2h 4min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 183 votes)

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Charlie Chaplin, Isobel Elsom, Edna Purviance, ...
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Brewster's Millions(1945)

NR
| 1h 19min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie Anderson, Gail Patrick, Joe Sawyer, ...

The Talk of the Town(1942)

NR
| 1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 37 votes)

When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.

Directed by George Stevens - With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Rex Ingram, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, ...
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Easy Money(1948)

1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Bernard Knowles - With Petula Clark, Mervyn Johns, Bill Owen, Constance Smith, David Tomlinson, Dennis Price, ...

The Berliner(1948)

1h 29min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.

Directed by Robert A. Stemmle - With Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Aribert Wäscher, O. E. Hasse, Hans Deppe, Karl Schönböck, ...
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