YMMV / Charade

• Awesome Music: Henry Mancini does it again.
• Cry for the Devil: The three members of Charles Lampert's patrol, who are killed one by one by Carson Dyle.
  • Dyle himself is a tragic figure. He was abandoned by the patrol and left to die during World War II, and was afterward left to the tender mercies of the Germans. It's hard to blame him for being so twisted and resentful.
• Fridge Logic: How did 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?
• Heartwarming Moments: When Reggie goes to find the $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.
  Felix: For a few minutes, they were mine. That is enough.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  Peter Joshua: Well, here we are.
  Reggie Lampert: Where?
  Peter Joshua: On the street where you live.
• Magnificent Bastard: Carson Dyle was once an OSS agent transporting money when he was seriously wounded and Left for Dead 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 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 Reasonable Authority Figure throughout the film 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 comes within a hairsbreadth of killing Regina before being killed by Cruikshank.
• Nightmare Fuel: 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.
• One-Scene Wonder: Felix, the stamp dealer who 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.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Dubbed "The best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made". Lampshaded in the MAD spoof, where "Stanley Done-in" really is "Alfred Hatchplot" in disguise!

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