To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief

  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writer: John Michael Hayes,David Dodge,Alec Coppel
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: August 5, 1955
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief
  • "To Catch a Thief" is a suspenseful love movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly . It was released in the United States on August 5, 1955.
    The film tells the story of the once-famous thief John Robbie, in order to get rid of suspicion of theft, he began to personally investigate the murderer who imitated his tactics, and launched a wit and courage to catch the thief   .

    Details

    • Release date August 5, 1955
    • Filming locations 335 Route de Saint-Jeannet, St Jeannet, France
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $2,964

    Movie reviews

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    • By Buster 2022-03-25 09:01:10

      Catch a Thief

      This is the last suspense movie with My Goddess and Hitchcock. I like Grace Kelly's nobility and Hitchcock's suspense. It's the last movie that has both. In fact, first Watched "Rear Window", then watched "Phone Murder" and ended up watching this. Not anymore, feeling a little lost. Some people say that Grace Kelly has a perfect and happy life, and some people say that beauty is the burden of her life. Although she has passed away, people still talk about her life for so many years. There...

    • By Jeanne 2022-03-25 09:01:10

      Grace Kelly and Cary Grant

      The films made in Hitchcock's era are naturally incomparable to today's special effects in terms of technical application. Audiences who are used to today's big scenes can only laugh when they see the special effects and scenery of Catching a Thief.
      In terms of the plot, the audience who are familiar with Gu Long, Chu Liuxiang and Lu Xiaofeng can probably already know a thing or two. It is nothing more than the old thief saint who was framed by someone, and he came back to the arena and...

    • By Darius 2022-03-23 09:02:09

      To Catch a Thief

      There have been frequent jewelry robberies in the city recently, and the police are helpless. Because the thief's method is the same as that of the famous thief "Black Cat" John (Cary Grant), the police find John, who is living a leisurely life in the country house. Of course John won't give in easily. After he got rid of the police, he began to investigate who used his method to commit crimes repeatedly. John, who had no clue, found Mr. Ba, his former comrade-in-arms, but was regarded as an...

    • By Okey 2022-03-23 09:02:09

      Good-looking, just good-looking!

      Just two words, beautiful.

      It's over after reading it.

      I watched it two days ago, and I almost forgot about it now.

      But I remember the heroine, mainly because she later became a princess.

      This is rare among actors who can climb high branches.

      Especially in China, actors, ah, belong to the lower class, and cannot intermarry with the royal family.

      It is still rare for modern actors to marry high-ranking officials.

      Plus, she's...

    • By Adolfo 2022-03-20 09:01:56

      How to use lines to make female characters attractive

      It was Hitchcock that didn't find the rhythm until the mid-term, and the front was too long. Grace Kelly is beautiful, and it's quite interesting to use the black cat walking around the house to transition. Put out the smoke on the single-sided poached eggs. "She's nothing like me, except rich." "Danny, you're a girl, and she's a woman." "Why an old one when you have a new one." "Maybe my old one. The car's gone." "No, it's just amphibious." 3. "It seems you can't use irregular verbs."...

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    • By Laurence 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      This is exactly the level of a New Year's film, with handsome guys and beauties rejoicing with each other, there is no shortage of funny plots and suspenseful plots, happy endings, plus the exquisite Baroque Rococo costumes and shiny diamonds inlaid in the fancy dress ball, in fact, What Xi Fat has always wanted to do is comedy. Looking closely, Grace Kelly is actually a square face. The Hollywood actresses in the 1950s were all beautiful and each with their own characteristics. Everyone has...

    • By Candace 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      The whole landscape, plus the beautiful Grace Kelly, 3 stars is...

    • By Gerald 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Idol film, but the one that Gris Kelly has the most room...

    • By Dereck 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Oh, this is to see the beautiful scenery and beauties, as well as the cute grandpa and the sea soul shirt, and the wonderful light and...

    Movie plot

    In the middle of the night, a black cat haunted the roof; in the room, a pair of gloved hands was flipping the jewels in the box; the next morning, there was a scream of lost jewels. The thief John Robbie, once nicknamed "Black Cat", is living a leisurely life with his beloved Black Cat in his beautiful country house, but the police come to the door because of successive jewelry thefts that resemble his modus operandi. John easily got...
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    Tidbits

    The director Hitchcock appeared in the film, and he was sitting next to John Robbie on the bus.
    In the scene where Robbie was talking with an insurance salesperson, the two talked about the chef's unusually sensitive hands, and the German version of the film was significantly different from the English version. In the German version, Robbie said that she had caught a lion running away from the circus with bare hands; in the English...
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    Evaluation action

    In "To Catch a Thief", in addition to the visual enjoyment of the charming and charming scenery of the Mediterranean in southern France, director Alfred Hitchcock also deliberately changed his style and chose a more relaxed theme to make the film full of romantic comedy. The male protagonist Cary Grant's inherent gentlemanly demeanor, gentle and unique temperament and handy humor, so that the audience can immerse in a kind of elegant...
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    Movie quotes

    • Frances Stevens: Mother, the book you're reading is upside down!

    • Frances Stevens: I bet you told her all your trees are sequoias.

    • Jessie Stevens: I know you ought to be spanked with a hairbrush and sent back to school - public school - where they could pound some sense into you during recess.