Classic Film Friday: Charade

This classic from 1963 really has it all. Suspense, comedy, mystery, and even romance. Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) is a woman, who through no fault of her own, is going through some changes. She meets Peter Joshua (Cary Grant), and tells him to look her up while in Paris. She is going to get a divorce, but instead winds up a widow, and all of her possessions are gone since she comes back from holiday in the Alps.

It's hard to describe, but she is not really that tore up about her husband's death, or the fact that he was murdered. At her husband's funeral three men come to say their goodbyes, but really they are looking for clues as the dead man and the three men were in the war (WWII) and they pilfered some money, from the US government. They never quite got around to divvying the money up, so now they think Ms. Lampert has the money.

She gets summoned to the US Embassy by a CIA agent Hamilton Bartholomew (Walter Matthau). He asks her to help find the money and insists that she has it.

Peter looks Reggie up and try to figure out what to do. That's where the fun starts. People start getting killed, Peter isn't exactly who he says he is, and Reggie doesn't know what to do. I could go further, but really you need to see this one yourself. On the Roku or right here if you like.