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Summary: Wow! Great picture now that it's on DVD!
Review: If you want to see this film, you must get this DVD version of it. I have owned the video tape for years and I always thought the poor picture was due to the fact it was made over 25 years ago. But this Criterion Collection version makes it look like it was made today. I have never seen such an improvement in quality from video to DVD. Get this version! You will love it! Oh, the movie was very good also.
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Summary: FIVE STARS TO CRITERION COLLECTION
Review: Criterion has done an excellent job in remastering Charade into DVD for the first time. The DVD menu is great, especially the "jump scene" option with moving slides. Most of all the commentaries by Donen and Stone are very entertaining and informative about this masterpiece and the early 60's. I really enjoy DVDs because of all these behind the scene material and insights provided by the makers of a masterpiece such as this. The video and sound quality is superior, and it feels as if it was filmed recently. I really was surprised about the high definition, especially since I read that the available copies were of poor quality. "Charade" is usually compared to and put at the same level than "North by Northwest according to some critics." But I think "Charade is far better because its story flows more naturally and stylishly. In "Charade", as the title suggests, the deceptions were very realistic and credible and they are my major reason to prefer it over the other. "Charade" is very unique, as most critics agree, because it combines several elements in one film: two most glamourous stars in a thriller that combines suspense, murder, comedy, romance and smart dialogue.
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Summary: Suspense, Romance, Humor, Cary and Audrey !
Review: This is one of my all-time favorites! Great romantic thriller with two of the greatest -- Hepburn and Grant. This DVD is very, very well done. Beautiful transfer with the real theatrical aspect ratio. It goes way beyond those other poorly done "Charade" DVD's. Get this Criterion copy only !
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Summary: Good Film, But Beware Poor Quality Versions
Review: "Charade" is good fun, but buyer beware: the film's copyright was accidentally not renewed, and it has fallen into the public domain. The film has been released by a number of small video companies at a very low price---but you get what you pay for, which is terrible video and audio quality. Given the care that Criterion usually takes with its transfers, "Charade" should look great on DVD. But avoid other versions that are not released by a major company.
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Summary: Droll, Flambouyant, and wonderfully enjoyable.
Review: I am not going to compare this film to Hitchcock, because Donen uses his own technique of suspense. It is unlike Hitch; it is different, and, ultimately more fun than most of Hitch's scary moments. I am not trashing the "Master", I am merely giving credit where it is due. Donen purposely intended to borrow from Hitchcock; but I believe he's done more than that. He's created his own, skillful suspense, a complete original body of work, entirely his own. Hepburn is nothing less than ravishing, Grant, debonair and charming. The music by Mancini provides the film with ALL of its atmosphere, and I mean that. For more scares, check out the Young and Hepburn collaboration, WAIT UNTIL DARK, with, once again, music by Mancini. It's even better than CHARADE, and four times as terrifying.
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Summary: How could you you go wrong with Grant and Hepburn?
Review: This was the first "old" movie i have ever seen. And now it is all i watch. They just do not make movies like they used to. As a teenager I'm used to all those shoot'em up movies that everyone seems to think are so great. This movie was a refreshing change. Now when i go to rent a movie i'll pick up Love in the Afternoon, or this great movie Charrads instead of Scream or any of those corny movies. i simply love these movies and sugest you watch them all.
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Summary: The Best Hitchcock Movie Hitchcock Never Made!
Review: CHARADE is the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made! With romance, sophisticated comedy, and stylish suspense (including a smattering of graphic-for-its-era violence) balanced out deftly, CHARADE is the movie that made me a fan of both Peter Stone and Stanley Donen (yes, I actually saw this before I ever saw one of Donen's musicals!). Every other line is sparklingly quotable, and Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are among my favorite screen couples; pity this was their only big screen teaming (I liked the wry way they kidded the age difference between them, too). James Coburn, George Kennedy, and Walter Matthau (all Oscar winners now!) are in top form in these early screen appearances of theirs. Both Hepburn and Paris look their sophisticated best, and the theme is my favorite by Henry Mancini next to the PINK PANTHER theme.
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Summary: Witty, charming, and full of surprises.
Review: The thing to remember while you are watching this movie is that things are never what they seem. Is his real name Peter, Alex, or Adam? Where is the half a million dollars that every one seem to think Hepburn has. By the end you want to scream it in their faces. No one would ever suspect anyone else of being what they really are. My favorite line was when James Coburn tells Grant that he fell for her like "an egg from a tall chicken", with his accent it is side-splitting funny. The romance in the movie is wonderful. It is a must see! --Carrie, age 18.
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Summary: OH! It's gratias!
Review: It is a very complex movies that is adulterate with laugh, romance and "horror"!
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious!
Review: This is one of the funniest comedies I've seen. I've been a fan of both Grant and Hepburn since I was a child, and this movie shows precisely the reason for both of them!
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