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If you were looking for a strong woman from the Twentieth Century, Hedy Lamarr was your gal. Held prisoner by her spouse in a castle, she escaped husband and native Austria by convincing him to allow her to attend a party with all of her valuable jewelry. With the help of the maid, her husband was drugged and she escaped the country with some assets, not the least of which was her mind.

The thing I really liked about Charade is how the film is a little of everything: thriller, mystery, romance, comedy. Grant and Hepburn are strangely composed considering that the threat of murder is all around them. They find time for comedy, romance, and dinner on a riverboat. The least you can do is find time for Charade.

In A Matter of Taste (French, Une affaire de goût) Frédéric Delamont (Bernard Giraudeau) is a cool customer. Cool is not the word. He is cold, as in coldly calculating. This does not mean he is a cold fish. He can be affable and certainly charms the man he hires as his food taster. Nicolas Rivière (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a nobody with excellent taste in food, if little else, and he is hired to insure Delamont is less offended than poisoned.

Growing up in the fifties, tv was black and white. Our family was probably the last to get color. I thought it would be nirvana when we got to see everything in different hues. As one gets older, it is hoped, tastes become more sophisticated. So it is that one realizes, monochromatic cinema oft has its own charm. After viewing The Third Man, you will realize it would have been poorer in color.