The pair enjoyed a warm friendship, with Kelly arguably representing the ultimate example of the “cool Hitchcockian blonde” archetype.
To Catch a Thief was Hitchcock’s third and final film with Grace Kelly, following Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, both released one year earlier in 1954.
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Along the way, Hitchcock managed to fly just under the radar of Hollywood’s production code censors with some sly tongue in cheek dialogue that keeps the chemistry between Grant and Kelly crackling.
Stevens, played by Jessie Royce Landis, a wealthy American widow who is traveling with her beautiful daughter Frances, portrayed by Grace Kelly at her most ravishing.Īnd so begins a new cat and mouse game, with Frances determined to uncover Robie’s true identity as Robie tries to anticipate the mysterious thief’s next move by shadowing “the Cat’s” likely targets. With the help of a Lloyds of London insurance agent, played by Hitchcock favorite John Williams, Robie masquerades as an Oregon lumber tycoon, making the acquaintance of a Mrs. Robie is living in splendid retirement at his mountainside villa when the newspapers begin reporting a string of jewel robberies all bearing his trademark style.Īnxious to avoid breaking his parole and finding himself back in jail, Robie is even more motivated than the police are to find the identity of the new “Cat” who is prowling the exclusive Cote D’Azur hotels nearby.
Featuring spectacular French Riviera locations, the film stars Cary Grant as John Robie, a former jewel thief known as “The Cat,” whose nine lives have included a stint in the French Resistance as well as time in prison. This week’s REEL 13 Classic is To Catch a Thief (1955), a lightly suspenseful romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Īfter achieving one of his greatest career triumphs the year before with Rear Window, Hitchcock needed a break-and managed to get one at the same time as producing and directing his next blockbuster hit, To Catch a Thief.
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