Charade [1963]

Year:	1963
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Comedy, Romance
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.8 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	10 Have Seen


Director	Stanley Donen
Selected Cast	Cary Grant as Peter Joshua
	Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert
	Walter Matthau as Hamilton Bartholomew
	James Coburn as Tex Panthollow

Notes

AKA Charada

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Charade [1963] - Treasure Box Collection - USA (2004)

VHS

Charade [1963] - Video Treasures - USA

DVD

Charade [1963] - The Criterion Collection - USA (2004)

VHS

Charade [1963] - Front Row Entertainment - Canada (1999)

VHS

Charade [1963] - MRA - Australia

DVD Box Set

Leading Men - The Ultimate Collection - St. Clair Vision - Canada (2008)

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jaimeeduardo 21st Aug 2020



Magic Marmalade 4th May 2020		Rated 7/10 All Kinds Of Everything. This was on telly the other day, so decided to finally watch it, so that I could tick it off my mental 'to see' list. I wasn't too convinced from the outset, I have to say, because it had an air of "too good to be true" about it... what with the stellar cast, clothes by Givenchy (no less) a gently groovy Henry Mancini score (which is excellent!) it seemed a little like a film that was more 'designed' than inspired... ...Like someone sat down and constructed a movie based on what sells, for the sake of the box office. But while that certainly is true I think, thankfully the story, kind of saves the day, and wins you over by gradually absorbing you in the intricacies of the plot. ...And the plot, indeed, the whole film, is a rather eclectic mix of different movie genres and film-making styles that in all honesty have no business being together, and give the movie a slightly odd feel: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn play through the middle of this whodunnit encased in a spy thriller rendered in a gloriously Technicolor Film Noir as a light-hearted rom-com adventuring bantering couple, for which both are usually known (and doubtless, for why they were cast here). ...As Audrey Hepburn's character seeks to learn why her husband, who she learns after his demise, was possibly a spy, was apparently killed, and almost immediately, enters a rogue's gallery of villains and shady characters at his funeral who begin gathering around her to discover if she knows where 'the money' her husband stole from them is... Cary Grant helps her dodge these schemers along the way, as the film moves from the usual rom-com fluffiness from these two, to something more like the Third Man noir-ish-ness with some of the most well made cinematographical noir sequences you'll see... in colour (!) Very good homage to Hitchcock suspense thriller type of thing all round, even with a very strong whiff of Vertigo in the opening credits... and there's even a rooftop struggle to boot! All round, a curious bag of disparate bits that shouldn't ought to sit well together , but, strangely, do. And in a way that makes this film feel like it must have been something altogether 'new' for the time, and certainly feels ahead of it's time on occasion... curiously more modern than the 1963 it was made in... it even makes the contemporary James Bond (Another film style this was trying to cash in on) films of the era feel a little dated. But a very good, entertaining film. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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