Charade (DVD)

Charade was made in 1963 and directed by Stanley Donen of Singin' In The Rain and On The Town fame. This however, is not a musical but an entertaining Hitchcock-esque film starring Audrey Hepburn as Reggie Lampert, a recent widow due to the sudden death of her husband, and Cary Grant as Peter Joshua, a kindly gentleman she meets at a skiing resort who helps her come to terms with the death of her husband. She finds out from friendly agent Bartholomew (Walter Matthau) that prior to his death, her husband left some business unfinished (to the tune of a stolen and as yet unfound $250,000) and a number of men (led by James Coburn) want some answers and come after Reggie for ...  Read the complete review

Regina Lampert's husband dies suddenly. If that isn't bad enough, she returns to her home in Paris to find that everything she owns has disappeared - apparently turned into cash by her husband before his death. A CIA man, Hamilton Bartholemew, tells her that her husband apparently stole a large sum of money from a payroll during World War II and the government now wants it back. But the cash is missing and Regina knows nothing about it - although Bartholemew and Lampert's other partners in crime don't believe her. A man she met on holiday, Peter Joshua, suddenly leaps to her rescue - but is his involvement purely coincidental or does he know more than he is letting on? ...  Read the complete review

"When we played our Charade we were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names, guessing the parts we played" The Film Regina Lambert is holidaying at a ski resort with her friend when she first encounters a man calling himself Peter Joshua. It is a seemingly chance encounter of the most ordinary sort, yet it is one to have great import later. She is on holiday trying to decide what to do with her life, especially about her unhappy marriage. She comes to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to get divorced from her wealthy husband, and decides to act on this decision when she gets back home. This is ...  Read the complete review