Charade
Charade is a 1963 American romantic comedy mystery film produced and 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.
Plot
While on holiday in the French Alps, Regina "Reggie" Lampert, an expatriate American working as a simultaneous interpreter, tells her friend Sylvie that she is divorcing her husband, Charles. She also meets Peter Joshua, a charming American.
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn
- Bernard Musson
- Cary Grant
- Chantal Goya
- Claudine Berg
- Clément Harari
- Colin Drake
- Dominique Minot
- George Kennedy
- Jacques Marin
- Jacques Préboist
- James Coburn
- Lucien Desagneaux
- Marc Arian
- Marcel Bernier
- Marcel Imhoff
- Max Elloy
- Michel Thomass
- Monte Landis
- Ned Glass
- Paul Bonifas
- Peter Stone
- Raoul Delfosse
- Roger Trapp
- Stanley Donen
- Walter Matthau
More details
author | Peter Stone |
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contentLocation | Paris |
director | Stanley Donen |
editor | Jim Clark |
genre | comedy crime mystery romance thriller |
keywords | american embassy belong central intelligence agency cia claim french alps french resistance hotel room kill missing money murder obsess office of strategic services os palais-royal police inspector professional thief prompt box prompt corner rare stamps simultaneous interpretation simultaneous interpreter split screen summon survive trapdoor treasury agent true identity venezuela world war ii wound |
musicBy | Henry Mancini |
producer | Stanley Donen |
productionCompany | Stanley Donen |
publisher | Universal Pictures |
recordedAt | Paris Studios de Boulogne |
theme | comedy thriller crime comedy mystery thriller romantic comedy romantic thriller |