Charade: Waaaaayy ahead of it's time

So last night I was volunteering at the Saratoga Senior Center which consisted of watching a movie with a couple friends and four older women; as you can see, very tiring work....Anyway we watched the movie, Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. I was honestly floored by the film. It wasn't so much the plot that amazed me; it was a standard story of murder for money and the ensuing mystery over who was the murderer and where that money was. No, what really got me was the actual techniques implemented in the movie, the camera angles, the music, the modernistic scenes of violence that were used. This movie was so modern for its time, and I think truly brought about a new age of murder mysteries. It had a "Hitchcockian" feeling to it with the constant changes in lighting to set the mood and the eerie music to enhance scenes, and yet, the chase scenes and the filming just seemed new and different in some way. This film deserves a lot of praise for its progressive style and this scene (WARNING: It will ruin the movie for you if you plan on watching it!) exemplifies the distance that the director put between it and other mysteries of the past.