To Catch a Thief

Name: To Catch a Thief
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Romance
Released: August 5, 1955
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Brigitte Auber, Cary Grant, Charles Vanel, George Adrian, Georgette Anys

1955

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 5, 1955 | Approved

Starring: Brigitte Auber, Cary Grant, Charles Vanel, George Adrian, Georgette Anys, Grace Kelly, Jean Martinelli, Jessie Royce Landis, John Alderson, John Williams

Summary: A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 106 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Hitchcock's superbly insouciant crime caper from 1955 must surely be one of the last movies in which the American super-rich are indulged so extravagantly and adoringly – the kind of people who stub their cigarettes out in fried eggs. Read full review

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Mike Clark

Conceived as froth with an edge and a smash on both counts. [11 May 2007, p.4D]

Josh Larsen

A model for breezy, bantering filmmaking of the criminal kind, To Catch a Thief has the feel of being made while on a getaway vacation. Read full review

Philip French

An engaging comedy thriller, one of the Master's rare straightforward whodunnits, producing real cinematic chemistry between Grace Kelly (her third and last Hitchcock film) and Cary Grant (his third and penultimate Hitchcock picture). [19 Oct 2014, p.48]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Cary Grant is at his most suave and Grace Kelly is stunningly beautiful in To Catch a Thief, a bubbly and effervescent Alfred Hitchcock romantic-suspenser that finds the Master in a relaxed and purely entertaining mood. Read full review

Bruce Dancis

All that beauty, Hitchcock's panache and a certain amount of cleverly suggestive, double entendre-filled banter between Grant and Kelly may be enough to keep To Catch a Thief entertaining for modern viewers, but it clearly falls short of the director's best work.

Staff (Not Credited)

One of the most lightweight (and not even particularly deceptively so) of Hitchcock's comedy-thrillers. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This is an entertaining watch, with different characters trying to second guess who the titular thief is. I enjoyed the setting, the glitzy French riviera and of course the cast includes two pretty big names - Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Cary Grant comes across as quite suave andThis is an entertaining watch, with different characters trying to second guess who the titular thief is. I enjoyed the setting, the glitzy French riviera and of course the cast includes two pretty big names - Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Cary Grant comes across as quite suave and sophisticated as his character, John Robie.

I thought this was a nice, fun watch, with inevitably a hint of nostalgia about it (it was released in 1955). There are the scenes with women fighting over the male lead character and I suppose it has a hint of a James Bond film about it - if any then I guess it'd have to be 'Casino Royale', although this is decidedly less an action/thriller film and more a somewhat light romantic drama, with some fairly witty pieces of dialogue at times. It is a little cliched and not, overall, greatly exciting as such (there are some fairly thrilling scenes but only now and again) but I enjoyed it for the most part (cliches and slowish plot pace aside) and I would recommend it to others regardless as a good(ish) watch, yes.… Expand

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movieloverandi

Jul 14, 2021

For me this is one of Alfred Hitchcock's weaker films, Though is has some great moments and wonderful acting from Cary Grant and Grace Kelly it lacks the suspense and charm of his other films.

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