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Charade
Charade

Charade

1963 113 min ★ 7.7 Comedy, Mystery, Romance

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.

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Cast

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Peter Joshua

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

Regina Lampert

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Hamilton Bartholemew

James Coburn

James Coburn

Tex Panthollow

George Kennedy

George Kennedy

Herman Scobie

Dominique Minot

Dominique Minot

Sylvie Gaudel

Ned Glass

Ned Glass

Leopold Gideon

Jacques Marin

Jacques Marin

Edouard Grandpierre

Paul Bonifas

Paul Bonifas

Mr. Felix

Thomas Chelimsky

Jean-Louis Gaudel

Details

Director

Stanley Donen

Screenplay

Peter Stone

Tagline

"Is anyone really who they seem to be?"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$4,000,000

Revenue

$13,475,000

Production

Stanley Donen Films, Universal Pictures

Reviews

J

John Chard

March 3, 2020

★ 9/10

Quality seeping from every genre pore. Charade is directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It's shot on location in Paris with Charles Lang on cinematography and Henry Mancini provides the score - where his memorable them...

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tmdb11977395

July 1, 2021

Audrey Hepburn's acting is simply lovely and her clothes gorgeous. I loved the way old movies were made, simple, slow passed, no running around or blowing entire buildings, just the old way of telling stories. This way I got to meet all characters, like them, laugh at them and be happy with their ending. And Regina is such an elegant, feminine, brave lady that I'd hoped to be when older. In sum a ...

F

Filipe Manuel Neto

July 10, 2023

★ 10/10

**Style, class, elegance, an intriguing mystery and a pleasant game of lies and half-truths in a film that deserves to be considered a great classic.** Some say this movie is the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made, and it's true. The iconic director didn't make this film, he wasn't even connected to the production, but his influence and style are very present here. The director, Sta...

C

CinemaSerf

May 8, 2024

★ 7/10

This is a corker of a romantic thriller with both Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn at the top of their game. When her husband is found murdered by the railway line, "Reggie" soon discovers that he wasn't quite the man she had though - Walter Matthau ("Bartholomew") convinces her that he was on the run from the US Government with an huge stash of gold. Enter James Coburn; George Kennedy and Ned Glass ...

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