Friday, April 27, 2012

Charade

Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

Hopeless hollywood schmaltz when "entertainment" meant getting two extremely good-looking actors together, putting them in fashionable clothes and locations and pretending that they are falling in love with each other. Even though one of them is a secret shit and a generation older.

This was done at the tail end of the studio era...when Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedies were boffo. The crack in the dike came two years later with The Pawnbroker...soon after that this so-called classy drivel came to be seen for the nonsense it always was.

Three years later she did Two For the Road...a big step up. Nice song by Henry Mancini.

Idiotic.

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