Charade

UPC: 715515061711

Studio: Criterion

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Questionable for Children]

Summary: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, Reggie is summoned to the embassy and warned by agent/friend Bartholemew (Walter Matthau) that her late husband helped steal 250,000 dollars during the war and that the rest of the gang is after the money as well. When three of the men who attended her husband's funeral begin to harass her, Reggie goes to Joshua for help, at which time Joshua confesses that his name is actually Alexander Dyle, the brother of a fourth accomplice in the gold theft. The three men from the funeral are revealed to be the three other accomplices in the crime, and though she knows next to nothing of the heist, Reggie is caught in a ring of suspense as she is followed by the shadowy trio, all after the money. Apparently, the only person she can trust is Joshua/Dyle -- until Bartholomew tells Reggie that the fourth accomplice had no brother, and Joshua/Dyle reveals that he is, in fact, a crook named Adam Canfield. Now Reggie doesn't know where to turn. The musical score by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini was nominated for an Academy Award. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Category: Mystery

Awards: Best British Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Edgar Allan Poe Awards

Features: Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring director Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
Original theatrical trailer
Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Bruce Eder

Charade

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 09/21/2010

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 113 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Cast and Crew: Stanley Donen  Director 
Stanley Donen  Producer 
Henry Mancini  Composer (Music Score) 
Peter Stone  Screenwriter 
Cary Grant  Actor 
Audrey Hepburn  Actor 
Walter Matthau  Actor 
James Coburn  Actor 
Ned Glass  Actor 
George Kennedy  Actor 
Jacques Marin  Actor 
Paul Bonifas  Actor 
Dominique Minot  Actor 
Thomas Chelimsky  Actor 

Country: USA