Programming Guide

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Show Detail: Charade (1963)

ShowID

51

Event Date:

12/5/1963

Length:

01:52:46

Category:

Comedy

Project

Feature Films

Comments

Charade is a 1963 American romantic comedy mystery 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. The film is notable for its screenplay, especially the repartee between Grant and Hepburn, for having been filmed on location in Paris, for Henry Mancini's score and theme song, and for the animated titles by Maurice Binder. Charade has received generally positive reviews from critics and was additionally noted to contain influences of genres such as whodunit, screwball comedy, and spy thriller. It has also been referred to as "the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made".

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