Charade
1963 · Movie · NR · 113 min · ★ 7.7 · 89% critics
After a whirlwind holiday romance, a woman returns to Paris to find her husband murdered and her life upended. With strangers closing in and authorities asking questions, she teams up with a charming but hard-to-read ally to untangle a wartime theft and track down missing money before dangerous pursuers reach her first.
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Details
- Years
- 1963
- Release date
- 1963-12-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 89/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 (1,543 votes)
- Box office
- $13,474,929
- Budget
- $4,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a light, classy mix of mystery, romance, and playful suspense in Paris, with constant questions about who to trust; Not for you if you dislike older-style pacing or campy humor like The Thin Man.
Pros: witty suspenseful mystery; charming romantic spark; twisty identity games | Cons: uneven tone shifts; some confusing moments; romance age gap
Themes
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- paris, france
- espionage
- age difference
- loss of loved one
- widow
- spy
- interpreter
- stamp
- caper
- whodunit
- train
- +6 more
Cast & crew
Cary Grant
as Peter Joshua
Audrey Hepburn
as Regina Lampert
Walter Matthau
as Hamilton Bartholemew
James Coburn
as Tex Panthollow
George Kennedy
as Herman Scobie
Dominique Minot
as Sylvie Gaudel
Ned Glass
as Leopold Gideon
Jacques Marin
as Edouard Grandpierre
Paul Bonifas
as Mr. Felix
- TC
Thomas Chelimsky
as Jean-Louis Gaudel
Directed by Stanley Donen