An excellent cast: Cary Grant (in an superb performance), Katherine Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy. All of them giving us a great performance.
Should have been great - two of the greatest actors of all time in Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, a superb supporting cast (Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy), an intriguing and original opening plot and some fairly witty and snappy dialogue between Hepburn and Grant. But it ends up mediocre, mostly due to the excessive amount of twists.
After being widowed in Paris, a woman becomes the target of goons who claim her husband was hiding away a fortune. Hepburn and Grant are absolutely charming in this suspenseful comedy.
I think we have been spoiled over the years since this film was made, by so many great thrillers with twists at the end, so that we are already doubting everyone right from the start in this film and rightly so. It didn't have me gripped as I would have hope for a film described as "Hitchcockian".
This is a corker of a romantic thriller with both Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn at the top of their game. When her husband is found murdered by the railway line, "Reggie" soon discovers that he wasn't quite the man she had though - Walter Matthau ("Bartholomew") convinces her that he was on the run from the US Government with an huge stash of gold.
Love Charade! I first saw it as a kid and fell in love with the movie then.
This is supposed to be a Hitchcockian-style thriller mixed with comedy and romance. But it never really succeeds in any category.
The charade is the world presented to women, young and older, to manipulate their minds into accepting the misogynistic views presented in this nonsense - and the brainwashing that took place throughout the last century via the medium, with similar stories told to reinforce those controlling views. Yes, great acting, intriguing story - but as eluded to by others, Audrey Hepburn fawning ad nauseam presents a completely unacceptable role model that was never and has never been acceptable.
Sometimes you watch so much meh when a classic comes around it's truly like heaven. That was charade.