Sunday, August 06, 2006

Charade, 1963


Director: Stanley Donen
Written by: Marc BehmPeter Stone ( story and screenplay

Cast:
Cary Grant as Peter Joshua
Audrey Hepburn as Regina Reggie Lampert
Walter Matthau as H. Bartholemew
James Coburn as Tex Panthollow
George Kennedy as Herman Scobie

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?

It is a story of intrigues and deceipts, in which the poor widow Reggie tries to make sense and finds herself in danger and sorrounded by people with multiple identities.

The Duo Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn works splendidly... but then, didn't the partnership Peter O' Toole/Audrey Hepburn in How to Steal a Million or Albert Finney/Audrey Hepburn in Two for the Road or Gregory Peck/Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday work divinely too?
Audrey is at her best comicity in this lively comedy!

Some lines which made me smile and laugh:

Reggie Lampert: I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.

[Touching the cleft in his chin]
Reggie Lampert: How do you shave in there?

I am not sure whether they make much sense out of their context, but out of her mouth they sounds hilarious.