Charade (1963)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Stanley Donen

Writers:

Peter Stone (screenplay)
Peter Stone (story) ...

Release Date:

5 December 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

You can expect the unexpected when they play..."Charade"

Plot:

Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | European Adventure | Public Domain | Older Man Younger Woman | American Abroad

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Cary Grant	...	Peter Joshua / Carson Dyle / Alexander Dyle / Adam Canfield / Brian Cruikshank
Audrey Hepburn	...	Regina 'Reggie' Lampert
Walter Matthau	...	Hamilton Bartholemew / The real Carson Dyle
James Coburn	...	Tex Panthollow
George Kennedy	...	Herman Scobie
Dominique Minot	...	Sylvie Gaudet
Ned Glass	...	Leopold W. Gideon
Jacques Marin	...	Insp. Edouard Grandpierre
Paul Bonifas	...	Mr. Felix - Stamp Dealer
Thomas Chelimsky	...	Jean-Louis Gaudet

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | German | Italian

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Australia:G (alternate rating) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Approved | Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1991) | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Alps, Haute-Savoie, France

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

The character played by Cary Grant quotes a line from My Fair Lady ("On the street where you live"), the film version of which would star Audrey Hepburn the following year.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the morgue technician closes Mr. Lampert's drawer, the shot from inside the drawer shows the attendant's hands on the inside, too.

Quotes:

Reggie Lampert: This is a ludicrous situation. I can think of a dozen men who are just longing to use my shower.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Circle (2005)

Soundtrack:

Charade

Audrey fingers Cary's dimpled chin and asks, "How do you shave in there?"

Just one of the many marvelous moments in "Charade", one of Cary Grant's and Audrey Hepburn's best films. There's a quarter of a million dollars floating around instant-widow Hepburn but nobody can SEE IT (it's right in front of their eyes). Filled with running jokes, colorful and eccentric oddities (such as trenchcoat-wearing George Kennedy with his hook and the little guy who won't stop sneezing), funny set-pieces (like the funeral scene, and Audrey's priceless exaggerated reactions) and suspenseful sequences, not to mention Audrey and Cary looking smashing together. This is one of 20 best films ever made, as good as "Casablanca" and "My Fair Lady". In fact, I think it's better.