Charade [1963 film]
by Stanley Donen (Director), Peter Stone (Screenwriter)
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Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.Tags
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A widow is attacked by people after her husband's money.
Weird movie. Sort of a parody of Hitchcock, except it takes the suspense seriously, and it's entirely possible that it isn't intentionally mimicking Hitchcock and is ripping him off. I'm not always sure if things are supposed to be funny or not, or if the humor is meant to be the focus or just mood-lightener. But I guess it's a good movie... I'm pretty sure it is. I'll have watch it a few times before I can tell whether I'm enjoying it or not. I did enjoy watching it, but I might have just been enjoying how perplexed it made me.
Concept: B
Story: B
Characters: C
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: C
Music: B
Enjoyment: B
GPA: 2.8/4
(Sep. 2011)
Weird movie. Sort of a parody of Hitchcock, except it takes the suspense seriously, and it's entirely possible that it isn't intentionally mimicking Hitchcock and is ripping him off. I'm not always sure if things are supposed to be funny or not, or if the humor is meant to be the focus or just mood-lightener. But I guess it's a good movie... I'm pretty sure it is. I'll have watch it a few times before I can tell whether I'm enjoying it or not. I did enjoy watching it, but I might have just been enjoying how perplexed it made me.
Concept: B
Story: B
Characters: C
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: C
Music: B
Enjoyment: B
GPA: 2.8/4
(Sep. 2011)
Stanley Donen started out with a sensible idea: with Grant and Hepburn on the payroll and Paris for a setting, why not tell a love story? Along the production line he decided to make a thriller instead. Then he turned the thriller into a sophisticated comedy of murders , gave the sophisticated romantic caper an international appeal, plus the selling points of adventure, suspense and suberb comedy.
Aug 15, 2025English (UK)
Dans son Opuscule sorti avec le DVD fin 2014, Serge Bromberg rapelle la critique de Pierre Murat: "Tout est beau dans Charade, Gracieux et sophistique.."
Le train fait son cinema, Tome 2 by Patrick Brion and Georges Di Lallo. Paris, Riveneuve, 2015
Le train fait son cinema, Tome 2 by Patrick Brion and Georges Di Lallo. Paris, Riveneuve, 2015
Apr 16, 2017French
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- Canonical title
- Charade [1963 film]
- Original title
- Charade
- Alternate titles*
- Charade
- Original publication date
- 1963-09-24
- People/Characters
- Peter Joshua; Regina Lampert; Hamilton Bartholomew; Tex Panthollow; Herman Scobie; Sylvie Gaudet (show all 10); Leopold W. Gideon; Inspector Edouard Grandpierre; Mr. Felix; Jean-Louis Gaudet
- Important places
- Paris, France; France
- Related movies
- Charade (1963 | IMDb)
- Original language
- English
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