Verdoux (Chaplin), planning to test a new poison (wine with a “cork“ in it),on an anonymous stranger, streetwalker (Marilyn Nash), someone new to Paris whom nobody would miss. When he finds that she has been driven to despair by a husband wounded in WW I, who later died, he suddenly relents and instead of poisoning her, gives her money and sends her on her way.
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