Charade (1963 film)

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Charlie is a 1963 comedy romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The players also featured Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It includes three genres: tension thriller, romance and comedy. Because Universal Pictures publishes films with unauthorized copyright notices, the film enters the public domain in the United States shortly after its release.

The film is best known for its scenes, especially those between Grant and Hepburn, having been filmed on location in Paris, for scores and Henry Mancini's theme song, and for animated titles by Maurice Binder. Charade has received positive reviews from critics, and also contains genre influences such as whodunit, screwball and spy thriller. It's also called "the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made".

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Plot

While on a ski holiday, Regina's Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) simultaneous interpreter tells his friend Sylvie (Dominique Minot) that she has decided to divorce her husband, Charles. He also met a charming American stranger, Peter Joshua (Cary Grant). Upon his return to Paris, he finds his apartment stripped naked. A police inspector informed him that Charles had been killed while trying to leave Paris. Reggie was given her husband's travel bag, containing a letter addressed to him, a ticket to Venezuela, a passport with many names and other items. At Charles's rare funeral, three strange characters appear to see the body.

Reggie was summoned to meet the CIA administrator, Hamilton Bartholomew (Walter Matthau) at the US Embassy. He learned that the three men were Tex Panthollow (James Coburn), Herman Scobie (George Kennedy) and Leopold W. Gideon (Ned Glass), who survived the OSS operation of World War II. Together with Charles and a fifth man, Carson Dyle, they will give $ 250,000 gold to the French Resistance, but instead they steal them for themselves. Dyle was badly wounded in a German attack, and Charles doodled the others and took all his gold. Three survivors after missing money, such as the US government. Bartholomew insists that Reggie has it, even if he does not know where it is. He tells her he may be in grave danger.

Peter puts Reggie in and helps her move to the hotel. The three criminals separately threatened him, each convinced that he knew where the money was. Scobie then electrocutes Reggie by claiming that Peter is allied with the trio, after which Peter confesses to him that he is really the brother of Carson Dyle, Alexander, who intends to bring others to court because he believes they killed Carson.

As the hunt for money continues, the first Scobie is found killed, then Gideon. Reggie got another surprise when Bartholomew told him that Carson Dyle did not have a brother. When he faces him, Alexander admits that he is actually Adam Canfield, a professional thief. Despite the frustration of his dishonesty, Reggie still finds herself believing it.

Reggie and Adam went to Charles's last appointment and found an outdoor market. When they saw Tex there, Adam followed him. Looking at the stamps selling stamps, Adam and Tex each realized that Charles must have bought some very rare and precious stamps that he had attached to an envelope that had been seen among his possessions. The two men raced back to Reggie's hotel room, only to discover that Reggie had given it to Sylvie's son, Jean-Louis for her collection. At the market, Reggie also realized the meaning of the envelope. He learns that Jean-Louis sells stamps to a merchant, who returns stamps and tells them how much each is worth.

Back at the hotel, Reggie finds Tex's body with the name "Dyle" written next to it. Convinced that Alexander was the killer after all, the frightened Reggie phoned Bartholomew, who told him to meet him at the Colonnade at the Palais-Royal. When he leaves the hotel, Adam sees him and chases. In the Colonnade, Reggie was caught in the open between the two men. Adam tells him that Bartholomew is really Carson Dyle; he survived and became obsessed with demanding revenge on his former colleague and taking back the treasure. After another pursuit ended at an empty theater, Reggie hid in the prompt box. Dyle finds himself and will shoot, when Adam activates the trapdoor under his feet and Dyle falls to his death.

The next day, Reggie and Adam went to the embassy to hand over stamps, but Adam refused to accompany him further. Signing in, Reggie discovers that Adam is really Brian Cruikshank, the government official responsible for recovering the stolen property. His true identity was revealed, he proposed marriage. The movie ends with a separate screen grid featuring flashback images of Brian's four identities, while Reggie says he hopes that they have many boys, so they can mention everything after him.

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Cast in sequence

• Audrey Hepburn as Regina "Reggie" Lampert
• Thomas Chelimsky as Jean-Louis Gaudel
• Dominique Minot as Sylvie Gaudel
• Cary Grant as Brian Cruikshank (aka Peter Joshua, aka Alexander "Alex" Dyle, aka Adam Canfield)
• Jacques Marin as Insp. Edouard Grandpierre
• Ned Glass as Leopold W. Gideon
• James Coburn as a Tex Panthollow
• George Kennedy as Herman Scobie
• Walter Matthau as Carson Dyle (aka Hamilton Bartholomew)
• Paul Bonifas as Mr. Felix, merchant stamp

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Production

When screenwriters Peter Stone and Marc Behm handed over their copy of The Waspicious Wife around Hollywood, they could not sell it. Stone later turned it into a novel, titled Charade , which found the publisher and also serialized in the Redbook magazine, due to many novels at the time. In Redbook it attracted the attention of the same Hollywood companies that had inherited it before. The movie rights were quickly sold to producer/director Stanley Donen. Stone then wrote the last shooting script, which was adapted for stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, with Behm accepting the co-credit story.

Hepburn shot the film in the fall of 1962, soon after Paris When It Sizzles, which he took aim of that summer at a number of similar locations in Paris, but the production difficulty with the film caused the film to be released. four months after Charade .

When the film was released on Christmas, 1963, Audrey Hepburn's line, "every time we could be killed," dubbed "every moment we can be eliminated" for the recent assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The word that is dubbed out is pretty obvious and all official video releases from the movie have restored the original dialogue, though some public domain video taken from the original release prints still carries a redubbed line.

Cary Grant (who was 59 years old during filming) was sensitive about the 25-year age difference between Audrey Hepburn (33 at the time of filming) and herself, and this made her uncomfortable with the romantic interaction between them. To satisfy his concerns, the filmmakers agreed to add several lines of dialogue where Grant's character commentary on his age and the character of Regina - Hepburn - is described as a pursuer.

Screenwriter Peter Stone and director Stanley Donen have an unusual cameo role in the film. When Reggie went to the US Embassy to meet with Bartholomew, two men boarded the elevator when he went down. The man who said, "I bully the old man out of the last pot - with a pair of deusi" is Stone, but his voice is Donen. This rock sound is then used for US Marines who keep the Embassy at the end of the film.

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Reception

Critical reception

Charade has received positive reviews from critics, receiving a 92% approval rating based on 35 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, averaging 8.1 out of 10.

In a review published Jan. 6, 1964 at The New York Times by Bosley Crowther, the film was criticized for "terrible touch" and "horrific violence," despite receiving praise for scenarios related to "sudden bends , surprising jokes, eccentric settings and sometimes bright and brittle lines "as well as Donen's direction, are said to be in the midst of a 1930s screwball comedy and North by Alfred Hitchcock, also starring Cary Grants.

In a review of Time Out, the film was judged positively, with the statement that it was a "huge audience of teasers [...] Grant instilled his inescapable charm, Kennedy (with an iron fist) giving comic brutality, while Hepburn is full of beauty. "While reviewing the blu-ray DVD version of the film, Chris Cabin of Slant Magazine gave the film a positive three and a half out of five ratings, calling it" high-end, kitsch "whodunit", and wrote that it was "riotous and chaotic taking the spy thriller, in essence, but structurally resembling Agatha Christie And Then Nothing " and describing it as "a kind of magical amusement. "MAD magazine" parody "Charades", starring "Cary Grand" and "Audrey Heartburn," and directed by "Stanley Done-In", appeared in the 88 (July 1964) edition.

Awards

Recognition of the American Film Institute

• 2000 AFI 100 Years... 100 Laughs Nominated
• 2001 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills Nominated
• 2002 AFI 100 Years... 100 Passions Nominate
• 2005 AFI 100 Years Movie Score Nominated

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Public domain status

This film includes a reading notification "MCMLXIII BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES COMPANY, INC. AND STANLEY DONEN FILM, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED", but ignores the words "Copyright", "Copr.", Or the symbol "Ã, Â ©". At the time (before 1978), US law required work to include words, abbreviations, or symbols to be copyrighted. Because Universal does not provide proper copyright notice on Charade , it enters the public domain in the US as soon as it is released. Copies of prints of various quality films are available on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray based on their status in the public domain. The movie is also available for free download on the Internet Archive. However, while the movie itself is a public domain, original music remains under copyright if it is out of a movie context.

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Soundtrack

• "Bistro"
• "Bateau Mouche"
• "Megeve"
• "The Happy Carousel"
• "Charade (Vocals)"
• "Orange Tamoure"
• "Latin snow"
• "The Drip-Dry Waltz"
• "Mambo Parisienne"
• "Punch And Judy"
• "Charade (Carousel)"

In 2012, Intrada Records released the full score as it sounded in the movie (the previous soundtrack album is a re-recording).

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See also

• List of American films of 1963

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References

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External links

• Charade on IMDb
• Charade in the TCM Movie Database
• Charade on YouTube
• Charade in AllMovie
• Charade in the American Movies Film Catalog
• Charade is available for free download on the Internet Archive
• Criteria Collection essay by Bruce Eder

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