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Release Date: 05 June, 2001 Retail Price: $11.98 OUR Price: $7.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: |
Charade Reviews
A Classic
I grew up with the classics, and Charades' follows suit, starring a great cast -- Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Walter Matthau. It's a great mystery, blending romanticism within a great film. I'd recommend it to anyone who loves the classics.
Whimsical tale of intrigue
Stanley Donen both produced and directed this capricious comedic crime drama. Such a vehicle was perfectly cast with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn playing the lead roles.
Hepburn playing Regina Lampert is contemplating divorce from her husband Charles while on holiday in the French Alps. While vacationing there she meets a charming and friendly Peter Joshua played by Cary Grant who promises to call her when they return to Paris. Upon her return she discovers that her apartment has been emptied out and that her husband has been found murdered. It seems that he stole $250,000 of U.S. government money and it's whereabouts are presently unknown. Very soon a dangerous group of her husband Charles army buddies show up looking for the stolen loot. The buddies played by James Coburn, George Kennedy and Ned Glass threaten with bodily harm her unless she turns over the money.
Who should come to the rescue but Grant, now sporting a different name and offering help and consolation for Hepburn. She gets a message from and then visits U.S. CIA operative Walter Matthau playing Mr. Bartholomew, who also is searching for the money.
In a classic case of whodunit and who's who, one by one the suitors for the $250,000 begin turning up dead. The plot containing a series of twists, plays out with a happily ever after Hollywoodized ending.
The beautiful French scenery and the excellent musical score composed by Henry Mancini are both hilights of this vintage film.
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