This 1963 movie is widely, and rightly, hailed as the best Hitchcock movie not made by Alfred Hitchcock. It’s written by Peter Stone, whose other screenplays include The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and 1776, and directed by Stanley Donen – and it stars one of Hitchcock’s best leading men, Cary Grant. Also starring in this marvelous mystery are the city of Paris, the setting throughout, and the charming Audrey Hepburn, who plays a woman whose husband is murdered. She ends up being threatened by a series of men, played by the likes of James Coburn and George Kennedy, and helped – or so it seems – by both Grant’s character and an investigator played by Walter Matthau. The twists are as smart as the performances, and Charade still ranks as one of my all-time favorite mystery movies. Enjoy.