Genre:
Mystery
Release Date: 08/26/2003
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 160 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Passport Video
Cary Grant and
Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish
comedy-
thriller directed by
Stanley Donen, very much in a
Hitchcock vein.
Grant plays
Peter Joshua, who meets
Reggie Lampert (
Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral,
Reggie is summoned to the embassy and warned by agent/friend
Bartholemew (
Walter Matthau) that her late husband helped steal 250,000 dollars during the war and that the rest of the gang is after the money as well. When three of the men who attended her husband's funeral begin to harass her,
Reggie goes to
Joshua for help, at which time
Joshua confesses that his name is actually
Alexander Dyle, the brother of a fourth accomplice in the gold theft. The three men from the funeral are revealed to be the three other accomplices in the crime, and though she knows next to nothing of the heist,
Reggie is caught in a ring of
suspense as she is followed by the shadowy trio, all after the money. Apparently, the only person she can trust is
Joshua/
Dyle -- until
Bartholomew tells
Reggie that the fourth accomplice had no brother, and
Joshua/
Dyle reveals that he is, in fact, a crook named
Adam Canfield. Now
Reggie doesn't know where to turn. The musical score by
Johnny Mercer and
Henry Mancini was nominated for an Academy Award.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
