Cary Grant Retrospective – Charade Review

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me as always is the Comic Conspires. Hello, Dan.

Hey, how's it going? Is not going to shabby here

we're coming off the heels of a to date the podcast

specifically off of a halloween season and watching

a lot of other. Poor content and we've had some

family sicknesses and things of that nature that

derailed our release of this one a little bit

but we're back at it with our carry grant retrospective

are you doing that. I'm too good yeah there was

just the. it's a new season so with that brings

all the illness so glad we're back talking to

Mark Harry Grant it's been a bit yeah absolutely

this will be our eighth and final installment

of our carry grant retrospective we will come

back with one additional episode where we kind

of wrap it up similar to what we did with the

Alfred Hitchcock retrospective where we hand

out some awards and give some final thoughts

on our kind of journey through these eight carry

grant films so definitely looking forward to

that so we do have a little more content to give

you along the topic of Cary Grant. Before we

get into the facts on Cary Grant and specifically

this film, Dan, what is your history with 1963's

Charade? I have zero history with it. I've never

watched it. I didn't really know much about it.

Well, like I think I mentioned last time, I keep

getting it recommended because it's available

on so many different platforms and we've been

watching Lot of Cary Grant movies. It's always

like you want you may like showing up, but So

but i've been holding off. I I almost watched

it until we were He decided to do this. I'm like,

okay. Well wait until we get to it. So i've been

Anticipating it quite a bit, but i've been also

trying to Avoid knowing anything about it I also

went into this one with completely no knowledge

outside of it does have slightly more for me

at least name recognition with the title then

a couple of the other ones we've talked like

I had never almost heard of Penny Serenade and

a fair to remember or none but the lonely heart

whereas charade I feel like that one has just

been more in the talked about over the years

so I at least knew the title a little bit more

but I knew nothing else besides that so since

we're both going in blind there may be some others

as well that don't know much about charade so

we're gonna let Dan fill us in on just the facts

and then we'll come back with our opinions of

the film. It's all come down to this. We finish

our Cary Grant retrospective off with Charade

which is a 1963 spy thriller romantic comedy

directed by Stanley Donnan starring Cary Grant.

Audrey Hepburn and Walter Mathau. In the film,

widow Reggie Lampart, played by Hepburn, discovers

her murdered husband was part of a World War

II plot to steal a fortune in gold that is now

missing. Pursued by his dangerous former accomplices

and aided by charming but mysterious Peter Joshua,

played by Grant, Reggie is caught in a sea of

lies, shifting identities and the occasional

murder. As the truth unravels, she learns the

fortune was hidden as rare and that Peter is

really a U .S. agent named Brian Crankshak. Mixing

romance, suspense, and humor, the film ends with

love and all the secrets... finally revealed.

Before becoming a film, Charade was written as

a screenplay by Peter Stone, which couldn't get

any traction. He adapted it into a novella for

Red Book Magazine, which caught Hollywood's eye,

leading it to finally being made. The film is

a mix of romance, comedy, and suspense, so it's

cocky and that is often mistaken for one of his.

Director Stanley Donnan, who's probably best

known for Singing in the Rain, potentially started

it like a Hitchcock thriller, even down to the

opening title sequence. That bold and beautiful

sequence was designed by Saul Bass, who also

created sequences for Hitchcock and Vertigo and

Psycho, and it's combined with Harry McConney's

jazzy score, which fits it perfectly. Charade

was filmed entirely around Paris, giving it an

authentic feel which was rather rare for Hollywood

thrillers at the time. It's also the only time

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant appeared together.

Their banter feels effortless because both actors

were well known for their impeccable comedic

timing and understanding of wit. Grant even improvised

some of his best lines to lighten the tone. Upon

release, it was extremely well received, including

Alfred Hitchcock himself who reportedly admired

the direction and thought He wished he made it

himself, but how does it hold up all these years

later back to Kevin and myself to discuss? All

right, so having watched this 1963 film charade

Dan I do have one question that I thought up

for you here. So this is his third last film.

He only does two films after this. And this is

obviously the last one we're covering in this

Cary Grant retrospective. We've made it all the

way to 1963. So over the course of the films

we've watched in this retrospective, and even

the ones that we saw during the Hitchcock retrospective,

we've seen Cary Grant do a number of different

things. We've seen him do the slapstick comedy.

We've seen him play the irresistible love interest.

We've seen him ooze charisma. We've seen him

channel James Bond before James Bond was a character.

We've seen him navigate thrillers and suspense

films. So does Charade give us a full circle

moment where it comes back towards the end of

his career and highlights all of those aspects

of the iconic actor? Or being towards the end

of his career, is this a revealing film to us

that kind of shows that he's winding down his

time in Hollywood and ready to ride off into

the sunset? What do you think? Would say more

the former than the latter for sure like I after

watching this I don't think I would assume that

he would be nearing his end if anything like

entering a new Era for him in a bit. I mean certainly

shows he's still spry Although as he's like jumping

across the terrace of different apartment building

or hotel rooms I mean probably wasn't him but

still at least they made it look rather effective

and I still think he has a lot of the skills

that we've been saying Still, you know, charismatic

as always. The comedy here maybe is a bit more

broad at times. It doesn't feel as natural as

some of the other, you know, that we don't have

to like the fast talking dabs, but I also think

that's purposeful. This is a different film.

But I think he settles into this role really

well. It's not, you know, akin to like Liam Neeson

going into taken being the serious actor and

becoming this crazy action star. But. It does

feel like it is a different degree for him. Like

he can tell he's a bit more seasoned. This is

more of a serious role, but still has his ability

to kind of show what made him a star in the first

place. I do think, as you mentioned, it does

encapsulate a lot of what made him him. Maybe

his fastball isn't, you know, in the high nineties,

but I think it's certainly, you know, it's not

in the low eighties either. So I think it's still,

he's still rather effective in this. Have one

follow -up question before I give you my thoughts

of the film here. Is it a crime? That this is

the only film that Carrie Grant and Audrey Hepburn

appear in together It is sad because yeah, they

are they are very good together and Honestly,

like I realized I've not seen a lot of I'm obviously

super aware of Audrey Hepburn and right now,

but I'm like I'm realizing Breakfast at Tiffany's

I Roman Hall and I probably saw when I was a

kid but it's been forever and since I watched

any of those and honestly what I was thinking

of watching this was when we talked about vertigo

and You know Jimmy Stewart and like how there

wasn't any chemistry there and that that kind

of hindered our enjoyment of it and then I went

to this and obviously, you know They have a pretty

large age gap, right? You know, Cary Grant. 25

years difference. Yeah. Still, I mean, they're

both great. They both are so super charming.

And yeah, it's sad that they this was the only

movie they ever did together, because I certainly

think, you know, I think I would have loved to

see what they could have done again, even if

it was more even more like a comedic role or

something that, you know, leaned into that a

bit more. But. You maybe even Audrey Hepburn

is the star here because she's carrying like

the majority of the film Yeah, it was like one

of the first things I did when the film got over

as I was like, oh I got to see what it you know

The other films that they did together and then

I was like googling it. I'm like, oh this this

was it I guess like dang it like I've seen Audrey

Hepburn in like my fair lady I don't know if

I've seen her in anything else and it's been

a long time since I've seen my fair lady But

this was like Grace Kelly level, like what we

talked about with a few of her films, like she

is just magnetizing on the screen. It's like

not even a hesitation to understand why she was

as famous as she was during this time in Hollywood.

Like it's it's fairly evident very early on when

she's on screen that it's like, oh, yeah, this

is this is why I worked for her in Hollywood.

So I had a lot like the thing that I kept thinking

about while I was watching this film is just

how much fun I was having with it. Like I was

just thoroughly entertained throughout the whole

thing. And I wasn't I almost was stopped being

like critical or even like trying to think of

the film in like a critique manner. Like I was

just having fun with it and forgetting about

everything else. And I was just like, I don't

care if there's anything like wrong with the

filmmaking or wrong with the story or wrong with

anything. Like I'm just like, this is a fun little

adventure. And I don't know if it's because it

was the last one we were doing, but I just felt

like this was almost the perfect wrap up film

to watch for Cary Grant. And it was just like,

wow, you know, he's 59 years old at this point.

And it was just like he was just as incredible

here as he was, you know, 10, 20 years younger

in some of the other films that we watched. I

mean, granted, it's. Got instead of like highlighting

one of those aspects like there are other films

that we kind of talked about this when we went

through the. retrospective like if you want to

film where that's represents Cary Grant's James

Bond like persona then we had a certain film

we could probably like point you to like if you

if you want to see like his comedic chops we

probably have a different film that we would

point you to I don't know if this is the film

that we would point to to highlight any of those

specific things in a singular manner but I don't

know if there's one better that points at all

of them in a more minor manner Like it's just

I feel like it just hits like on so many things

throughout the the entire film and it does have

a and I want to get your opinion too. It does

have quite the supporting cast in this film,

like maybe more so than any film we've covered

in any of either the Cary Grant or the Hitchcock

retrospectives. Like I believe there's three.

People in this from an actor standpoint that

had a. at least an Oscar nomination for either

lead actor or leads or a supporting actor. Like,

I believe George Kennedy has one of those. Obviously,

Cary Grant did. And I'm going to say the wrong

name is Walter. Walter Matha was in this. No,

Walter. Yeah, Walter Matha. And that's not to

mention James Coburn. And I mean, there's obviously

Audrey Hepburn, but like there's like a stud,

a star set of cast here. What did you kind of

make of some of the surrounding characters? Yeah,

I had no idea that Walter man that was in this

like when he showed up I'm like, oh wow, that's

That's also me. I mean he's fantastic. Of course

and You know, I think him I might I tend to go

to comedic roles, of course in another Cary Grant,

but in this he's not really comedic at all at

all I wish, I mean, it couldn't happen because

of the script, but I do wish we got more Cary

Grant and Walter Mathau. Like, you know, it couldn't

work with a movie the way it is, it would kind

of destroy it. But just, you know, seeing them

go back to forth, back and forth and like having

them interact would have been something. Cause,

you know, just seeing, you know, two, I'd say

comedic geniuses in their own right, like being

able to play off, but having very, they have

very different ways about them. But yeah, the,

the. Cast here is incredible You know, you mentioned

James Colburn like that joy was not expecting

seeing George Kennedy. I'm like, oh wow This

is I also didn't realize he was that tall. I

never had no idea that he was like that mountain

of a man because I'm thinking of No, but I should

have realized it cuz of his role on things like

cool hand Luke and stuff like that But my mind

went right to the naked gun. Yeah, that's where

my head was that but Was looking at some of them

trying to trying to think of some of like the

other roles that I wasn't aware that some of

them did and I found one interesting kind of

connection that Jacques marine who are rare and

who plays the inspector grand Pierre I did see

him once upon a time in one of the her be Movies

the her be the love bug movies But I didn't realize

that he was still doing stuff to the point where

he was one of the voices in monsters Inc He was

dr. Frazen burger and monsters Inc which is weird

because James Coburn was Also a character in

Monster's Inc. So I didn't realize that two of

these were guys were still going. James Coburn

also did like some Captain Planet voice work

and some things like that. So and obviously,

like you said, they have a couple of them have

like some big time Western presence and like

some of the classic Western movies or even like

Dallas, the TV show. So I guess is a definitely

a very interesting surrounding cast. And it's

obviously, you know, the main plot or the premise

of this, like we talked about in the facts, you

know, we have somewhat of a suspense thriller

background where there's We get introduced to

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn's character and

then there's these three Possible villains that

we're trying to figure out who the bad guy is

between all of them and obviously sometimes They

cast aspersions towards Cary Grant's character

and things like that So how do you think they

played that dynamic where we have like these

two that are like? Being played as the good characters,

I guess so to speak or the innocent characters

and we have like this Motley Trio of potential

villains that are trying to you know, make some

money off of this whole thing We thought it did

a good job of keeping me guessing of like Where

are these allegiances like who is good and who's

bad because I was like are they are they using

Cary Grant's You know persona against him like

using that to subvert expectations because like

it's Cary Grant. He can't be the bad guy So I

was like, oh, maybe he really is the bad guy.

Maybe he isn't. So it did have me questioning

and wondering who's on whose side. Eventually,

though, it started to kind of like, OK, clearly

where it's going. But still, I thought it did

a good job of keeping you, of utilizing all these

different characters. And despite having this

big cast, everyone felt like their role. Everyone

played a role and you got a good sense of all

their characters Throughout this so I thought

that was really well handled Yeah, I was definitely

it definitely kept me guessing as well which

added to a little bit more of the suspense and

thriller it's a it's always hard if you have

a suspense or a thriller type film and it kind

of Shows you its hands too early, or it's just

easy like an easy tell so I appreciate that this

one did for a while keep me like trying to figure

out how exactly this was and also the like what

they were looking for like there wasn't just

the mystery of like who Was potentially the bad

guy that was like you're off in each person.

It was also like where Where is the thing they're

looking for like where's the MacGuffin like what

are we actually after? And then obviously you

have one of them that has the the Yeah, like

the easy comparison would be and I think we mentioned

this with the catch a thief But it does like

dr. No came out the year before and it does even

from the opening song and in the opening sequence

Feels very james bond inspired like george kennedy

feels like adult, you know a james bond villain

Um, they all kind of do in a way like different

versions of it I mean, you know, we've only gotten

one film, but we got the books by now I don't

know how if it was an influence or if it's just

True. You know, if it just seems that way because

of the use of the locales, the skiing, it has

all those different elements, but it does feel

very influenced, especially considering, you

know, Dr. No the year before and how big of a

hit that was worldwide. I know you already mentioned

too, I wanted to get your take on how you felt

like it worked or didn't work because we mentioned

the age difference, right? Like Cary Grant's

59, Audrey Hepburn's 33. at this point, there's

a 25 year difference. I will give Cary Grant

some credit in, I don't know if it was the Wikipedia

page, IMDB page or where I saw, but it did say

something about the fact that he was somewhat

sensitive or cautious about that fact going in

because he didn't want it to look a certain way.

And he definitely was not interested in playing

up too much on the romantic aspects between the

two if it was going to make him look, you know,

a certain way. It looked like they kind of went

out of their way to make her more of the pursuer.

And I think they even comment on the age during

the film. So how do you think they worked as

like the love interest given the actors themselves

age gap difference? It's like I mentioned, I

thought their chemistry was fantastic. Like,

yeah, you and I also think like thirty three

and fifty six is a lot different than like thirty

three and eighteen or nineteen years. Yeah. So

it doesn't it feels not nearly as or anything

like that, because certainly she's old enough

to make those types of decisions. And she does

feel like a character with her own agency. She's

making her own decisions. And at times, though,

I did get there to a point where I'm like, are

we going to find out she secretly has been in

on it this entire time? And she's really the

mastermind behind it all. At a moment, I thought

maybe that was going to be the twist. But no,

ultimately, though, I did think they worked well

as a couple. And I don't think the maybe because

it's Cary Grant, but the age thing didn't seem

to enter there them at all. So I feel like he's

also capable of playing himself younger than

he actually is. Like, I don't know if you would

watch this film and say like he's 60 years old

or, you know, will be within the next year. Like,

I think he can almost play it off as if he's

a little bit closer than than they actually are

in age. And I think She can somewhat do the same

like I watched this film like this of her. And

if you would ask me without doing any research,

like how old she was, I wouldn't have been able

to tell you. I don't know. No, I honestly thought

she would be younger than she was when you said

so. But maybe like I thought maybe like mid 20s

or so. But right. I guess that makes sense. So

it was because even Cary Grant apparently really

enjoyed. filming this with her. One of his quotes

I saw on IMDB said that after finishing the film,

Cary Grant was quoted as saying, all I want for

Christmas is to make another movie with Audrey

Hepburn. And it didn't happen because of some

conflicts, because right after this, they both

do a movie the next year, right? Like, she's

cast already in My Fair Lady, which comes out

in 1964. And they offered Cary Grant the role

of Professor Higgins in that. which he couldn't

take because he was already cast in a film called

Father Goose, which would be a second to last

film. And then he requested her to be his co

-star in Father Goose, but she couldn't do it

because she was already cast in My Fair Lady.

So it seemed like there was something where they

both kind of wanted to be in another film together,

but it just couldn't quite work out because of

what they were already contracted to do. I guess

it's crazy that they never got the other chance

like we kind of talked about before but he does

make a My Fair Lady reference in this film which

is kind of interesting because he uses the line

on the street where you live which is like one

of the main songs from My Fair Lady so I don't

know if they had already known that she was cast

in that by the time but it's kind of I guess

clever that they they threw that in there. I

completely messed that so I only got that because

it was one of the other films that I performed

in in my high school day right after and that's

I sang that specific song on stage so when he

said I was like oh I was like that's weird because

that's a name of a song that she's literally

in the movie for coming up so that was kind of

interesting but what other thoughts so anything

that you was a drawback for you for charade that

knocked it down a notch or anything You can see

anything really like you said, I was just having

fun with it as well. Nothing really You can maybe

argue maybe it gets there's a little bit too

many to us for turn for turn sake maybe but I

don't necessarily think so I will say one thing

don't even go off and talk about how Great Tom

Hanks it not Tom Hanks. I guess Tom Hanks and

running but I was thinking Tom Cruise Oh, yeah,

like how he runs Cary Grant like he That dude

can book it as well. He's done doing a lot of

running in this. Perfect form. Perfect form.

What did you think of the shower scene? I would

say that was the one. I get it. It felt like

it was trying. This is Cary Grant. We need to

be funny. Here's a funny scene. I didn't necessarily...

I understood why I was there, but it didn't necessarily

make me laugh. Apparently there was something

to it, too, where he didn't really want to be

without clothes in any way, shape or form, given

his age. And I guess he felt like self -conscious

of what kind of shape he was in and things of

that nature. So I think it started as like almost

like a joke inside of the joke just for the actors.

And then they thought it was funny enough where

they were like, let's just go with this and have

you do this drip dry nonsense. But yeah, there

was definitely a lot of twists and turns. I wasn't

expecting honestly, even as everything else was

getting revealed, did not anticipate the exact

ending that we got either. I don't know why my

head was in the sand, but I was not anticipating

exactly how it ended. So there was a lot of twists

and turns, though, for sure. Yeah, well, and

then because then we get the final turn. Where

he's actually is a good guy, right? I obviously

thought like it's more interesting if he's not

but I get it like I guess maybe that's something

that They didn't want to happen. But right. Yeah,

I just it was you know, it's Kind of the summer

blockbuster of its day, but you know, like you

can certainly see Things like Mission Impossible

was influenced by something like this or a lot

of those different spy films And if you do like

James Bond, I think this honestly is better than

a lot of the Bond films maybe the action set

pieces aren't as exotic but some of the comedy

did work like the the scene with at there at

the like the nightclub and they're using the

the melon to try and like Oh my goodness. That

I thought was like, that's him at his best. That's

Laudville coming out as fast as possible. Right,

which is another side of Cary Grant that they

found to work their way into this film. It felt

like, it's almost like they somehow knew this

was going to be one of his last films and they're

like, let's play all the hits. Ultimately, I

think it's like the The best film to end on because

like looking at the other movies that come out

after this Don't see nearly as acclaimed or as

right as good So and and on a high note and I

think this is probably the best high note Like

the last great high note that he had in his career.

Yeah, I agree. Um, the film did get some award

Attention it got an academy award nomination

for best best song for the song which is the

title song charade I didn't know the british

academy film awards had like these categories,

but She won for best British actors and then

he got nominated for best foreign actor So I

guess they have like specific categories just

for British actors and actresses at least back

in this time period and then like anybody that

wasn't British gets a different Classification

so I thought that was kind of funny and they

both got not see go ahead did not know she was

British until Yeah, and they both got nominated

for Golden Globes for this one for actress in

a motion picture musical or comedy So I do think

some of that was was warranted. I'm surprised

I didn't get more Academy Award attention with

kind of how this went I think probably if they

like realize how Near that he was the end of

his career Maybe they would have but right they

probably assumed that like he's got a lot more

years going but you know He definitely did not

get enough award attention as he deserved over

his body of work I would say like we had two

times that he got nominated and I feel like There

was a lot of other chances for him to get Put

in the running for that I also saw one other

quote that I wanted to get your take on it because

I felt like it's a perfect way to We went straight

from a Hitchcock retrospective to a Cary Grant

retrospective And I saw this multiple places

when I was doing research that this has been

called the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock

never made Do you think that that's fitting for

this film and in a way? I guess is it also a

perfect wrap -up for us doing these two retrospectives

back -to -back Honestly, I didn't I didn't get

Hitchcock with this to be I guess maybe because

my head went to James Bond and I never came out

and it didn't feel like a Hitchcock thriller

to me. I felt more like a kind of a spy film

and I don't necessarily Associate that genre

with him as much I mean certainly you have like

the intrigue with the murder and those things

but it didn't I didn't get Hitchcock vibes from

it compared to like other films that I feel like

I didn't necessarily either as much, but I do

see where some people are coming from with like,

it feels like there's not as much like a Hitchcock

signature to it, but more of like a variety of

things that harken back to Hitchcock films in

a way. Like, obviously, you know, we have a thief

involved for like to catch a thief. And there's

a moment where they're kind of going into a tunnel

or something which is similar to the end of North

by Northwest. And then there's the sequence with

him on the roof, like there is on, you know,

North by Northwest as well. So I feel like there's

like some of those types of things that you could

like hide to different sequences, scenes or moments

in Hitchcock films. But I didn't get the Hitchcock

thumbprint on it where it's like the things that

we talked about during that retrospective. I

think a lot of those are missing, obviously,

from from this overall. Yeah, you do make great

points. Yeah, that's good comparison. That's

something like North by Northwest and we've been

to catch a thief like I guess I could see something

like we mentioned was to catch a thief I felt

that even that was before James Bond movies.

It felt very James Bond ish So so perhaps I guess

when I guess my even though even though we've

done so many Hitchcock films My head goes to

like the basics there. So yeah, I totally get

that my only other interesting piece of trivia

that I had for this one I don't know if you saw

this or not, but apparently when they Release

this movie. They have like the thing that says

like the copyright Like line that you have to

put in for all of this type of thing Like the

Universal Picture Company Inc and Stanley down

and films all rights reserved blah blah blah

But they forgot to put the word copyright in

it Which is required you either have to have

the word copyright the abbreviation or copyright

or the copyright symbol and since they didn't

do that As soon as it got released it was in

public domain that's amazing That's the only

thing that got copyrighted for anything involved

in the film. So I don't know if I've ever heard

of a film going immediately to public domain,

like as soon as it was actually released in the

theaters. Usually if it's something that's really

bad, it's like, let's just let that one go. That

to me is hilarious for sure. Other things that

you haven't got a chance to talk about as far

as Charade goes? No, I think that pretty much

covers it for me. it did do well obviously when

it was released as I think it had a budget of

about three million it says that box office was

13 I don't know if any of that is I'm assuming

just from that time we're not talking about inflation

or anything of that nature it obviously has a

pretty good score as far as like Rotten Tomatoes

and Metacritic and all that I think it has like

a 94 % on Rotten Tomatoes it doesn't seem even

though it was nominated for a lot of the different

AFI lists I don't I didn't see anything about

it actually making any of Their list which i'm

not saying that's 100 true, but usually they

would have that either On imdb or wikipedia or

something. They would mention that and I don't

I see that it got nominated for like three or

four of them But to my knowledge it didn't make

any of them You know, I think if any of all the

movies we went through I feel like this one is

the most underappreciated I feel like it needs

to be talked about more because I would like

I don't think it's as good as north by northwest,

but I think it's not It's in within a conversation

of it, at least, or at least of all the Cary

Grant movies we've watched and we'll probably

talk about this more next week. Certainly near

the top of what I've what I saw. I feel like

if I was putting together like an essential list

of if you want to know, like if you want to get

a snapshot of Cary Grant's career, like these

are the five or six films you have to watch.

Like this would 100 percent be in there like

or it could almost be like the one where you're

saying like if you want to see like little bits

and pieces of everything that made him who he

was. This may be one of the best examples to

just watch and get a little bit of all of the

taste of his different kind of things that he

does, even though, like I said, it's not it's

not his funniest comedy. It's not his most suspenseful

suspense. It's not his most, you know, James.

It's close to his most James Bond -ish film,

maybe. Yeah. But I feel like all the other stuff

is like downplayed a little, but it's all there.

So it's like, I think you kind of get an understanding

for for him as an actor by watching this one.

If like if you only had to give like one film,

To watch to like get an idea of who he was. I

feel like you either have to go with North by

Northwest or this one Yeah, yeah, I mean because

you think of something like Bringing a baby which

is very much more just as comedic side or saying

things like that Friday like they're there. Those

are like the more comedic versions Yeah, and

this we get a bit of drama here and there like

we wouldn't we learn his backstory but like it's

it's Yeah, I kiss kiss even like the trailer

for this has like it's like a blender and it

showed and if it's filling up all the different

genres I honestly think that's a very good Comparison

and like a very good visual of like what this

movie is and even like what all these performances

in tail as well, right? No, I totally agree.

I mean, obviously if I was wanting to Send someone

to his drum and dramatic side. I probably send

them to Penny Serenade Yeah, or you know something

like that, but I think this is this to me was

like the perfect ending to our retrospective.

So I had a lot of fun with this one. Awesome.

All right. So that means our next episode, we're

going to be focusing in on the eight films that

we covered during this retrospective. We're probably

going to leave most of the Hitchcock stuff out

since we already did a wrap up that had those.

But we'll talk about the eight Cary Grant films,

give out some awards for. supporting roles or

whatever types of things we come up with for

that. Maybe some best scenes or moments or different

things like that will keep you in suspense while

we decide on what those categories are. And then

we'll do some more fun things here in the holiday

season that will probably reveal during that

episode as well. Dan, if people want to leave

you feedback or have questions or anything like

that, how can they reach out to you? You can

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as well. So, all right, that does it for this

episode. Tune in next time for another chance

to listen to more of the cinema.