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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Director:
Alfred Hitchcock |
COUNTRY
USA |
Genre
Thriller/Crime |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
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RUNNING
TIME
106
minutes |
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Producer:
Alfred Hitchcock |
Screenwriter (based on the novel by David Dodge):
John Michael
Hayes |
Review
In To Catch a Thief,
arguably Hitchcock's most fashionable movie, Cary Grant gets full
value for his suave effortlessness as "The Cat", a retired jewelry
burglar on the French Riviera. It's a remarkably attractive picture, and
not only because of Grant and co-star Grace Kelly, who is at her most
seductive here, but also because Hitchcock makes each scene come alive with
sophistication. He makes you feel like a natural part of these
surroundings; it's like travelling to 1950s France with your pockets
full of money. Unfortunately, the scenes don’t sum up to a cohesive, intriguing
whole the way Hitchcock's best works do. For that, John Michael Hayes' script
from David Dodge's 1952 novel is too unremarkable. It lacks any real
suspense. And the ending, which is built up to be a Hitchcockian climax,
lacks nerve. This was the last of Kelly's three films with Hitchcock,
after
Dial M for
Murder and
Rear Window, before her early
retirement.
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