Criminal Christmas # 23 – Charade
A woman who is planning to divorce her husband but before she can, he turns up murdered and every thing she owned sold. Just when it couldn’t get any worse a gang of men decide she knows where her husband put all their money and start to apply pressure. He only hope maybe a man who isn’t who he seems to be.
Probably one of the best Alfred Hitchcock movies, Charade features two of the biggest names at the time, Cary Grant and Audrey Hupburn in this romantic thriller with humour and thrills a plenty. Filling out the cast included names such as George Kennedy, James Coburn and Walter Matthau.
The movie is very 1960′s, starting right from the opening credits that both set the scene and impress with their style. With the majority of the action taking place in Paris, the movie doesn’t feel like the millions of Hollywood movies that were churned out one after the other.
The main characters are so wonderful to watch, and with the plot twisting this way and that, this is a perfect movie for anyone with a love of 60′s movies, romantic thrillers, comedies, pretty much anyone at all.
