{"id":43777,"date":"2012-09-12T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/?p=43777"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T23:40:28","slug":"charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/charade.html","title":{"rendered":"Charade<\/i>, the Best Hitchcock Film Hitchcock Never Made. Stars Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charade_se\"<\/p>\n

The best Hitch\u00adcock film Hitch\u00adcock nev\u00ader made. That\u2019s how cer\u00adtain enthu\u00adsi\u00adasts of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan film think of Cha\u00adrade<\/em><\/a>, Stan\u00adley Donen\u2019s 1963 light\u00adly comedic mys\u00adtery thriller filled with inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal intrigue. Its cast list draws deeply from the era\u2019s for\u00admi\u00adda\u00adble well of cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adic icons: Cary Grant, Audrey Hep\u00adburn, Wal\u00adter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy. Its action takes place in no less a screen-illu\u00admi\u00adnat\u00ading world city than Paris. The Cri\u00adte\u00adri\u00adon Col\u00adlec\u00adtion has seen fit to give it a schol\u00adar\u00adly, respectable DVD and Blu-Ray release<\/a>. It comes scored by Hen\u00adry Manci\u00adni. It has inspired four remakes, includ\u00ading one in Ben\u00adgali and<\/em> one in Hin\u00addi. It direc\u00adtor also made On the Town<\/em>, Sin\u00adgin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em>, Fun\u00adny Face<\/em>, and Bedaz\u00adzled<\/em>. \u201cA ter\u00adrif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly enter\u00adtain\u00ading com\u00ade\u00addy-thriller,\u201d crit\u00adic Dave Kehr calls it<\/a>, \u201cper\u00adfect\u00adly craft\u00aded\u201d and \u201ca mar\u00advelous use of Paris.\u201d All these qual\u00adi\u00adties and more strong\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend the pic\u00adture, at least to my mind, and if you\u2019d like to see it for your\u00adself, you have only to pull it up on Archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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