Rating: NR
Genre: Mystery
Release Date: 05/08/2007
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DDS2.0/DD1
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Paramount

A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant heads to the Cote D'Azur, where he is greeted with hostility by his old partners in crime. All of them had been pardoned due to their courageous activities in the wartime Resistance, and all are in danger of arrest thanks to this new crime wave. But Grant pleads innocence, and vows to find out who's been copying his distinctive style. With the reluctant aid of detective John Williams, Grant launches his investigation by keeping tabs on the wealthiest vacationers on the Riviera. One such person is heavily bejeweled Jessie Royce Landis, who is as brash and outspoken as her daughter Grace Kelly is quiet and demure. But "still waters run deep," as they say, and soon Kelly is amorously pursuing the far-from-resistant Grant. Part of Kelly's attraction to Grant is the possibility that he is the thief; the prospect of danger really turns this gal on. Being Cary Grant, of course, he can't possibly be guilty, which is proven in due time. But by film's end, it's obvious that Kelly has fallen hard for Grant, crook or no crook. Occasionally written off as a lesser Alfred Hitchcock film (did we really need that third-act fashion show?), To Catch a Thief is actually as enjoyable and engaging now as it was 40 years ago. Though the Riviera location photography is pleasing, our favorite scene takes place in a Paramount Studios mockup of a luxury hotel suite, where Grant and Kelly make love while a fireworks display orgasmically erupts outside their window. And who could forget the scene where Jessie Royce Landis disdainfully stubs out a cigarette in an expensive plate of eggs? Adapted by frequent Hitchcock collaborator John Michael Hayes from a novel by David Dodge To Catch a Thief won an Academy Award for cinematographer Robert Burks.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Cary Grant - John Robie (The Cat)
Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens
Jesse Royce Landis - Mrs. Jessie Stevens
John Williams - H.H. Hughson
Charles Vanel - Bertani
Brigitte Auber - Danielle Foussard
Jean Martinelli - Foussard
Georgette Anys - Germaine

Production:
Alfred Hitchcock - Director
Alfred Hitchcock - Producer
Lyn Murray - Composer
George Tomasini - Editor
John Michael Hayes - Screen Writer
Sam Comer Arthur Krams - Set Designer
Hal Pereira - Art Director
J. McMillan Johnson - Art Director
Robert Burks - Cinematographer
Edith Head - Costume Designer
Daniel McCauley - First Assistant Director
Wally Westmore - Makeup
Harold Lewis - Sound/Sound Designer
John Cope - Sound/Sound Designer
Farciot Edouart - Special Effects
John P. Fulton - Special Effects
David Dodge - Short Story Author

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