To Catch a Thief

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To Catch a Thief

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To Catch a Thief

Brigitte Auber, Cary Grant, Charles Vanel, Georgette Anys, Grace Kelly, Jean Martinelli, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams (II)

When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence

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  • flixsterman
    April 22, 2009
    flixsterman
    Hitchcock-Lyte. Combination of Cary Grant's screwball-ish comedic style, Grace Kelly's timeless beauty, and Alfred Hitchcock's unmatched mastery of suspense. This isn't nearly as serious as Rear Window or North by Northwest but it was never intended to be. Comedi...( read more)c romantic thriller. (Comromiller? Thrillcomance? How about Romthrilledy?)
  • powerofmylove
    April 2, 2009
    powerofmylove
    this movie was just alright for me not one of my favorites but I did not hate it though.
  • armybratgeo
    June 17, 2008
    armybratgeo
    This is a beautiful classic Alfred Hitchcock, one of my favorites. I watched this as a little girl with my Mom and I just had the pleasure of watching it with my Daughter, what a freat experience. Still such a great great Movie...
  • groaningbitch
    January 29, 2008
    groaningbitch
    as hitchcock admits himself "to catch a thief" is not supposed to be taken seriously, and it's a flick due to the sheer "pleasure principle"...it abounds the glamour of edith head's fashionable constumes and landscapic sceneries of french rivera, all about people in leisure with ...( read more)divine living that none of our commoners could afford.

    cary grant is reformed jewlry cat thief, and he's confronting false accusations of some recent imitated crimes of his past, then a rich spoilt young lady grace kelly spots him out with some expectant sitimulation to chase after him while joyfully seducts him into her fragrant chamber. eventually grant disposes the framing conspiracy and kelly conquers grant in his reclusive villa with her calculated last remark "oh mother would love here!!!" while grant apprehensively glimpses her back.

    "to catch a thief" is by far hitchcock's mostly feminine flick which literarily pays its hommage to fashion. all the dressy clothes kelly and grant wears in it would be deemed iconic today. the tilting part is the trifling tension of genders since kelly takes the initiative move to court grant but in a tastefully subdued manner, she schemes to entrap him as her love conquest and he's also clever enough to perceive that. tenderly aggressive invasion and fiercely passive resistance form an interesting guerilla of opposite sexs, even after she explodes in hostility while she suspect him for thivering her family diamond. then she surrenders to him after he claims his innocence, so she sumbits to his league and reaching her aiding hand that is one of typically hitchcockian patterns of gender harmony. and the gimmick of firecracker glittering metaphors the blossom of undertone sensuality becuz in those days everything is about suggestive insinuations on sex that is a refined way to express. even the kisses of grant and kelly are actually faux ones resulted from the masterful editing to create a particular angle of contours that has been utilized also upon "vertigo" between jim stewart and kim novak.

    "to catch a thief" may be too brightfully cheerful for standard hitchcockian aficinado but also enormously pleasant for the eyesight with the french pastures and luxurious mansions, fair-looking people in elaborated dresses and fancy gowns that is a flamboyant life to envy upon. why not just relax and absorb such carefreeness?

    (ps) the role of the real thief, a puberty french lad, was once considered with bridget bardot, but rebuffed by hitchcock becuz he views bardot too blatantly sexy just like "french marilyn monroe"...hitchcock in person prefers his blondes with boiling sexuality but all disguised under the debutante icy-cold surface.
  • kenstachnik
    January 28, 2008
    kenstachnik
    Diet Hitchcock
  • gultenreiz
    November 11, 2009
    gultenreiz
    Usually the combination Grant - Hitchcock is a winner, at least for me, but I had some reserves about this movie. I wasn't won over by the story, that at times drags, the ending was rushed and unsatisfactory. Also, the acting wasn't that good, a very tanned looking Grant wasn't u...( read more)p to his usual best and charming form, and as far as G. Kelly is concerned, I was never a fan of hers. Beauty and poise doesn't equal great acting skills.
    But I think "To catch a thief" could be called also "Postcards from the french riviera", for me the beautiful images were the best thing in the movie.
  • flusbiss
    November 5, 2009
    flusbiss
    To Catch a Thief is a charming movie but quite different to other Hitchcock films. Other Hitchcock films made in the 50s like Vertigo, Dial M For Murder and Rear Window (Grace Kelly being in the last two) have strong story lines, brilliant camera-work and suspense. To Catch a Thi...( read more)ef's storyline almost seems a tad weak in comparison to those films, and it does not seem like a thriller, it seems like more along the lines of a romantic-comedy-crime movie. It is also slightly predictable and it wasn't too hard to guess the 'real cat burglar'. Still, it is an entertaining movie and shows Hitchcock's versatility.
  • ElCochran90
    September 18, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Entertaining adventure Hitchcock tale.

    81/100
  • hanbaz
    September 7, 2009
    hanbaz
    a cheesy sequence with kissing and fireworks, with a meaningful story and witty lines at times makes this an enjoyable film, who is playing who you may thing as two leading stars are brought together in a hitchcock mediocre thriller which he has said not to take this film serious...( read more), well then why bother if you ask me. i never much cared for grants way of actjng however its perfect for this film.

    cary grant plays a reformed cat burgular who seem to have an enemy and is framing him as teh culpret of robberies along the french rivera, so now he must play his own game and catch the real thief off guard and red-handed, but how?

    along the way he follows the most expensive jewellry in the area, with whom a womans daughter suspects hims and plays a few games herself.

    ending in a finale chasing scene among the rooftops to the catch the thief.
  • djabonillojr2008
    September 5, 2009
    djabonillojr2008
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