Charade (1963 film)

Charade is a 1963 Technicolor American romantic comedymystery film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres suspense thriller, romance and comedy. Because Universal Pictures published the movie with an invalid copyright notice, the film entered the public domain in the United States immediately upon its release.

Regina Reggie Lampert Audrey Hepburn, on a skiing holiday in Megve, tells her friend Sylvie Gaudel Dominique Minot that she has decided to divorce her husband Charles. She then meets a charming stranger, Peter Joshua Cary Grant. When she returns to Paris, her apartment is completely empty, and police inspector Edouard Grandpierre Jacques Marin notifies her that Charles has been murdered while leaving Paris. Reggie is given her husbands travel bag, containing a letter addressed to her, a ticket to Venezuela, passports in multiple names, and other items. At the funeral, three odd characters show up to view the body. One sticks the corpse with a pin and another places a mirror in front of the bodys mouth and nose, both to verify that Charles is really dead.Reggie is summoned to meet CIA administrator Hamilton Bartholomew Walter Matthau at the U.S. Embassy. She learns that the three men are Tex Panthollow James Coburn, Herman Scobie George Kennedy, and Leopold W. Gideon Ned Glass, the three survivors of a World War II OSS operation. Together with Charles and a fifth man, Carson Dyle, they were to deliver 250,000 in gold to the French Resistance, but they stole it instead. Dyle was fatally wounded in a German ambush, and Charles doublecrossed the others and took all the gold. The three men want the missing money, and the U.S. government wants it back. Bartholomew insists that Reggie has it, even if she does not know where it is. ........

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