Charade

Music by Henry Mancini

 

 

 

 

 

With Charade (1963), one of the most entertaining thrillers influenced by Hitchcock's films, Henry Mancini confirmed its unsurpassed talent to refined and immediately catchy tunes.

The main theme is one of his timeless classics and inspired variations, such as the use of its harmonies in Bateau Mouche and the rhythmic version on Charade Carrousel have become inseparable part of the film, as well as the version of opening in James Bond mood over the animation sequence made by Maurice Binder, not coincidentally author of many openings of the series 007. The expanded edition released by Intrada Records brings for the first time tracks absent in previous editions – on vinyl and CD – as suspenseful moments (unsuspected in Mancini´s writing) as Metro Chase or Hook Fight, the fight on the rooftop between Peter (Cary Grant) and Herman (George Kennedy). The material of main interest in this new edition naturally will be variations to the theme Charade as in Empty Room, Fatherly Talk and Notre Dame. One of the most interesting titles of series Intrada/Universal of obvious historical significance considering that took 50 years to this soundtrack be available in complete form.