Charade

Charade

It is a joy to watch two pros, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, demonstrate what star power is all about. Together with director Stanley Donen and wonderful music score by Henry Mancini, they pull off a superb Hitchcockian thriller with plenty of wit and humor. Regina Lambert (Audrey Hepburn) is trying to figure out who her husband really is after he has been murdered. After his death, she is warned by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew (Walter Matthau) that several members of his old gang are out to get $250,000 which he had absconded with. Since they suspect she has it, her life is in danger. Peter Joshua (Gary Grant) enters the picture to help her, or is he trying to get the money too? To compound her troubles, she falls in love with him, until she finds out he is not who he says he is. She is advised by agent Bartholemew that Joshua is after the money and may kill her. She desparately tries to escape from Joshua and reaches Bartholemew just in time. But she has been trying to escape from the wrong man. (1963)

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