Charade [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Stanley Donen

Overview

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, Reggie is summoned to the embassy and warned by agent/friend Bartholemew (Walter Matthau) that her late husband helped steal 250,000 dollars during the war and that the rest of the gang is after the money as well. When three of the men who attended her husband's funeral begin to harass her, Reggie goes to Joshua for help, at which time Joshua confesses that his name is actually Alexander Dyle, the brother of a fourth accomplice in the gold theft. The three men from the funeral are revealed to be the three other accomplices in the crime, and though she knows next to nothing of the heist, Reggie is caught in a ring of suspense as she is followed by the shadowy trio, all after the money. Apparently, the only person she can trust is Joshua/Dyle -- until Bartholomew tells Reggie that the fourth accomplice had no brother, and Joshua/Dyle reveals that he is, in fact, a crook named Adam Canfield. Now Reggie doesn't know where to turn. The musical score by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini was nominated for an Academy Award.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2010
UPC:	0715515061711
Original Release:	1963
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:53:00
Sales rank:	8,824

Special Features

Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Audio commentary featuring director Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone; Original theatrical trailer; Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Bruce Eder

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cary Grant	Peter Joshua
Audrey Hepburn	Regina Lampert
Walter Matthau	Hamilton Bartholemew
James Coburn	Tex Panthollow
George Kennedy	Herman Scobie
Ned Glass	Leopold Gideon
Jacques Marin	Inspector Edouard Grandpierre
Paul Bonifas	Felix
Dominique Minot	Sylvie Gaudet
Thomas Chelimsky	Jean-Louis Gaudet
Gr?goire Aslan	Voices
Stanley Donen	Voices
Roger Trapp	Actor
André Tomasi	Actor
Henry Mancini	Composer
Peter Stone	Actor
James Coburn IV	Tex Penthollow
Minot Dominique	Sylvie Gaudet
Georges Billy	m¿¿czyzna na poczcie
Louis Viret	Actor
Albert Daumergue	m¿¿czyzna na poczcie
Michel Thomas	Actor
Anthony Stuart	Actor
Michel Thomass	Actor
Jacques Pr?boist	Actor
Antonio Passalia	Actor
Bernard Musson	Actor
Chantal Goya	Actor
Marc Arian	le passager du m?tro
Claudine Berg	la femme de chambre
Marcel Bernier	kierowca taks?wki
Raoul Delfosse	kierowca taks?wki
Colin Drake	Hamilton Bartholomew
Cl?ment Harari	niemiecki turysta
Monte Landis	Actor
Jean Gold	Actor
Lucien Desagneaux	Actor
Mel Ferrer	Man Smoking Cigarette in Nightclub

Technical Credits

Peter Stone

Marc Behm

Peter Stone II

Peter Stone	Screenwriter
Marc Behm	Screenwriter
Stanley Donen	Producer
Jacques Carr?re	Sound Effects
Allan Morrison	Sound Effects
Bob Jones	Sound Effects
Paul Stader	Stunts
Peter Stone II	Screenwriter