Starring the romantic pair of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, with Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy, this film is considered the best "Hitchcock film" which the director did not make. While on vacation, Grant and Hepburn first meet briefly and then she returns to her home Paris. Hepburn goes there only to find out her husband, who she wanted to divorce, has been murdered. When meeting with a CIA man (Matthau), she learns that her husband and three buddies stole some money during a war but the three chums never got their shares. Upon meeting Grant again, he agrees to help Regina (Hepburn) and also says he is looking for the money. Through a series of events the three other men are all killed and everything seems to point to Grant. Hepburn runs for her life with Grant close behind and winds up meeting the CIA man. However everything is not as it seems and after a shoot out Hepburn finally realizes the truth. Along with the thrills this movie has a nice score and a touch of comedy (including Grant's many aliases).
8/10 rating
8/10 rating
My Fair Lady (1964)
Adapted from the book and play Pygmalion, originally written by George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. It follows a speech therapist (Harrison) as he tries to win a bet that he can pass off a poor flower girl as a duchess. He takes Eliza Doolittle (Hepburn) and begins to train her, not as a person but as an experiment. Eliza eventually gets fed up with this treatment but at the same time also wants to become sophisticated. With Harrison's help she does become that person and is no longer a subject to be experimented with. Putting together a good cast, plot, and songs, this film is quite good.
8/10 rating
Other Audrey Hepburn films I may watch in the future include: Funny Face (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), Two for the Road (1967), and Wait Until Dark (1967).
Audrey Hepburn can also be seen extremely briefly in the classic comedy-heist film The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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