To Catch a Thief
With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis.
US, 1955, 35mm, color, 106 min.
Like many of his mid-Fifties' films, To Catch a Thief finds Hitchcock working primarily to entertain his audiences, in preparation for the more challenging work to come. Hitchcock concocted the perfect caprice by bringing together two of the most alluring of his preferred actors: Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. The film’s tale of using a (reformed) thief to catch a thief takes a back seat, for the most part, to the romantic sparring between the stars, and indeed, the juxtaposition of these two plot elements may owe something to Lubitsch, whom Hitchcock acknowledged as “a man of pure Cinema.” An affectionate valentine to the good life,To Catch a Thief pays homage to Hitchcock's sybaritic pleasures with glittering champagne parties, bucolic picnics and a celebratory embrace of Monte Carlo's luxurious pleasure garden.
Part of film series
Screenings from this program
Vertigo
To Catch a Thief
The Trouble with Harry
The Paradine Case
Stage Fright
Rebecca
Notorious
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder
Lifeboat
Saboteur
Murder!
Family Plot
Under Capricorn
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Spellbound
Strangers on a Train
Torn Curtain
Suspicion
Shadow of a Doubt
