Line #13 YMMV/Charade


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/HenryMancini does it again.
2	* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler: The three members of Charles Lampert's patrol, who are killed one by one by Carson Dyle.]]
3	** [[spoiler:Dyle himself is a tragic figure. He was abandoned by the patrol and left to die during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and was afterward left to the tender mercies of the Germans. It's hard to blame him for being so twisted and resentful.]]
4	* FridgeLogic: How did [[spoiler:Carson Dyle]] manage to subdue Scobie and drown him in a bathtub, without being heard by any of the others who were searching the neighboring rooms?
5	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: When [[spoiler: Reggie goes to find the [[MacGuffin $250,000 stamps]] she'd given to her nephew, she finds Felix, 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.]]
6	--> [[spoiler: '''Felix:''' For a few minutes, they were mine. That is enough.]]
7	* HilariousInHindsight:
8	-->'''Peter Joshua:''' Well, here we are.
9	-->'''Reggie Lampert:''' Where?
10	-->'''Peter Joshua:''' [[Film/MyFairLady On the street where you live.]]
11	* 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 agonizing 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.
12	* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Tex's fate. Regina finds him with his hands and feet bound to a radiator and a chair with a plastic bag over his head, obviously suffocated to death. She's more shocked at the message he left in the carpet, but the screaming expression he's making, while looking right at the camera, shows that he died in agony, unlike his other two associates.]]
13	* OneSceneWonder: Felix, the stamp dealer who [[spoiler: reveals the actual value of the stamps to Reggie and returns them without a fuss, being content with having owned them for a few minutes.]] His scene lasts less than three minutes, but is quite memorable.
14	* SpiritualAdaptation: Dubbed "The best [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film that Hitchcock never made". {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' spoof, where "Stanley Done-in" really ''is'' "Alfred Hatchplot" in disguise!

Context YMMV / Charade