History YMMV / Charade

** Charles Lampert aka Charles Voss: Who manages to outsmart everyone, even his own killer. Hiding the money in plain sight with the letter and the three seemingly ordinary looking stamps which in reality collectively worth a fortune. It's also highly likely Charles knew that Reggie would give the stamps to Jean-Louis. Ensuring that in the end, none of his cohorts would be able to get the money.

** Charles Lampert aka Charles Voss: Who manages to outsmart everyone, even his own killer. Hiding the money in plain site with the letter and the three seemingly ordinary looking stamps which in reality collectively worth a fortune. It's also highly likely Charles knew that Reggie would give the stamps to Jean-Louis. Ensuring that in the end, none of his cohorts would be able to get the money.

** Charles Lampert aka Charles Voss: Who manages to outsmart everyone, even his own killer. Hiding the money in plain with the letter and the three seemingly ordinary looking stamps which in reality collectively worth a fortune. It's also highly likely Charles knew that Reggie would give the stamps to Jean-Louis. Ensuring that in the end, none of his cohorts would be able to get the money.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: When [[spoiler: Reggie goes to find the [[MacGuffin $250,000 stamps]] she'd given to her nephew, she finds a collector. Unlike everyone else in the movie, he produces them perfectly easily, explaining how he knew the boy who'd traded them had made a mistake. He gave the boy a bag of varied stamps for his collection, then later handed the more valuable stamps to Reggie over without a fuss.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Stamp Collector:''' For a few minutes, they were mine. That is enough.]]

** [[spoiler:Dyle himself is a tragic figure. He was abandoned by the patrol and left to die during WWII, and was afterward left to the tender mercies of the Germans. It's hard to blame him for being so twisted and resentful.]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[BigBad Carson Dyle]] was once an OSS agent transporting money when he was seriously wounded and LeftForDead by his comrades, spending the next 10 months in a German POW Camp in lingering pain. Resolving to take revenge on his ex-partners and reclaim the money, Dyle [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer takes on the identity of a CIA agent named Hamilton Bartholomew]] to keep tabs on them before murdering Charles Lampert, the last man known to have the money. Summoning Charles' widow Regina to inform her of her husband's dealings, Dyle plays the part of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure throughout the film [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge while systematically stalking and murdering his ex-partners]] and doing his best to discredit Brian Cruikshank, the real government agent sent to retrieve the money. Finding himself face-to-face with Regina and Cruikshank, Dyle [[NearVillainVictory comes within a hairsbreadth of killing Regina]] before being killed by Cruikshank.

* AwesomeMusic: Music/HenryMancini does it again.

* SpiritualAdaptation: Dubbed "The best [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film that Hitchcock never made". {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in Magazine/{{MAD}}'s spoof, where "Stanley Done-in" really ''is'' "Alfred Hatchplot" in disguise!
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--> [[spoiler: Stamp collector: For a few minutes, they were mine. That is enough.]]

** In an earlier picture, ''Film/TheBishopsWife'', Grant played an angel who gave guidance to a bishop. When he asks to check the bishop's mail, the man asks if he's expecting any; Grant replies, "Well, you never know; [[spoiler:if I did get one, the stamp would certainly be worth saving.]]" The line takes on [[MacGuffin a completely different connotation]] in the context of ''this'' film.

* SpiritualAdaptation: Dubbed the best [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film that Hitchcock never made. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in Magazine/{{MAD}}'s spoof, where "Stanley Done-in" really ''is'' "Alfred Hatchplot" in disguise!

* HeartwarmingMoments: When [[spoiler: Reggie goes to find the [[MacGuffin $250,000 stamps]] she'd given to her nephew, she finds a collector. Unlike everyone else in the movie, he produces them perfectly easily, explaining how he knew the boy who'd traded them had made a mistake. He gave the boy a bag of varied stamps for his collection, then later handed the more valuable stamps to Reggie over without a fuss.]]

* SpiritualLicensee: Dubbed the best [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film that Hitchcock never made. {{Lampshaded}} in Magazine/{{MAD}}'s spoof, where "Stanley Done-in" really ''is'' "Alfred Hatchplot" in disguise!

** Would have been doubly so if [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Cary Grant accepted Warner's offer to play Professor Higgins]].

* SpiritualLicensee: Dubbed the best [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film that Hitchcock never made. Lampshaded in Magazine/{{MAD}}'s spoof, where "Stanley Done-in" really ''is'' "Alfred Hatchplot" in disguise!

* SpiritualLicensee: Dubbed the best [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film that Hitchcock never made.

** In an earlier picture, ''The Bishop's Wife'', Grant played an angel who gave guidance to a bishop. When he asks to check the bishop's mail, the man asks if he's expecting any; Grant replies, "Well, you never know; [[spoiler:if I did get one, the stamp would certainly be worth saving.]]" The line takes on [[MacGuffin a completely different connotation]] in the context of ''this'' film.

-->'''Peter Joshua:''' [[Theatre/MyFairLady On the street where you live.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: The three members of Charles Lampert's patrol, who are killed one by one by Carson Dyle.]]