By Signal Staff
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are coming to local screens this weekend as Buzz Classic Movies presents a Saturday night showing of the 1963 mystery, “Charade.”
The film has earned a 94% “fresh” rating from the critics based on 54 reviews, and a 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Popcornmeter” based on more than 25,000 ratings.
“After Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered,” says the Rotten Tomatoes summary of the movie. “Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband’s World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?”
“A globetrotting caper that prizes its idiosyncratic pieces over the general puzzle, ‘Charade’ is a delightful romp with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn’s sparkling chemistry at the center of some perfectly orchestrated mayhem,” reads the “Critics Consensus” on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Charade” streams at 8 p.m. Saturday on The Signal’s streaming channel, The Buzz, available at buzzscv.com as well as streaming platforms including Roku and Apple TV.
