Charade

This is Hitchpod Bonus Episode.

I'm Kat Jones and I'm here with Dan Liebke and usually in this podcast we watch a Hitchcock movie but today in our special bonus episode we're watching a Hitchcock inspired episode as voted by our wonderful supporters at Patreon and the bonus movie we've chosen to talk about today as voted by Patreon supporters is Charade directed by Stanley Donnan.

Yes.

So just going into the details of Charade, it was made in 1963.

It's got an IMDB rating of 7.9 out of 10 and a pretty spectacular Rotten Tomatoes rating of 94%.

Although, of course, as with most of these things, a lot of those are newer people, newer ratings.

Driven by our clever listeners to this podcast.

Yes.

I did found a review at the time though from the New York Times.

Yeah.

This review said, Peter Stone, and this one was actually quite positive for the most part.

Peter Stone, a new chap, has written a screenplay that is packed with sudden twists, shocking gags, eccentric engagements and occasionally bright and brittle lines and blah, blah, blah.

Occasionally?

Occasionally, yes.

Scathing.

It's a style that is somewhere between that of the screwball comedy of the 1930s and that of Alfred Hitchcock on a North by Northwest course.

He's comparing it to a silent screwball movie.

Well,

yeah, so somewhere between that and the North by Northwest, which is reasonably accurate.

Although he did mention that it also was a little bit grisly at times.

Ah, interesting.

Well, I've got a slightly negative review, I presume from the era.

This critic was called Bosley Crowther.

What a fantastic name.

That's a great name.

This is Hitchpod Bonus Episode.

I'm Kat Jones and I'm here with Dan Liebke and usually in this podcast we watch a Hitchcock movie but today in our special bonus episode we're watching a Hitchcock inspired episode as voted by our wonderful supporters at Patreon and the bonus movie we've chosen to talk about today as voted by Patreon supporters is Charade directed by Stanley Donnan.

Yes.

So just going into the details of Charade, it was made in 1963.

It's got an IMDB rating of 7.9 out of 10 and a pretty spectacular Rotten Tomatoes rating of 94%.

Although, of course, as with most of these things, a lot of those are newer people, newer ratings.

Driven by our clever listeners to this podcast.

Yes.

I did found a review at the time though from the New York Times.

Yeah.

This review said, Peter Stone, and this one was actually quite positive for the most part.

Peter Stone, a new chap, has written a screenplay that is packed with sudden twists, shocking gags, eccentric engagements and occasionally bright and brittle lines and blah, blah, blah.

Occasionally?

Occasionally, yes.

Scathing.

It's a style that is somewhere between that of the screwball comedy of the 1930s and that of Alfred Hitchcock on a North by Northwest course.

He's comparing it to a silent screwball movie.

Well,

yeah, so somewhere between that and the North by Northwest, which is reasonably accurate.

Although he did mention that it also was a little bit grisly at times.

Ah, interesting.

Well, I've got a slightly negative review, I presume from the era.

This critic was called Bosley Crowther.

What a fantastic name.

That's a great name.