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Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn's glossy studio thriller opens its story with this scene played almost entirely for black comedy, which is the whole trick of Charade: it's routinely called the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made, mixing real menace with genuine wit. Big stars, a major studio, and a real box-office hit -- and it landed in the public domain anyway, which surprises almost everyone who hears it.