To Catch a Thief (1955)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 106m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel
Synopsis:
A former jewel thief turned Resistance hero comes out of retirement in Nice to expose the perpetrator of a new spate of cat burglaries. He is hindered by the police and his former cronies, who resent being on permanent probation, and aided by a Lloyds insurance agent and wealthy American heiress.
Review:
A Hitchcock which admittedly provides little in the way of cliffhanging thrills, or even deadly peril, much less a comprehensible plot, but which offers plentiful sophisticated entertainment and is always cinematic, in spite of taking time out for sexy banter. Everyone and everything looks a treat, in Technicolor and Vistavision, and it all seems like the record of a wonderful holiday cast and crew spent together; Grace Kelly decided to stay so the dream wouldn't end. (Charles Vanel's English was evidently so non-existent he had to be dubbed - badly, his mouth at times resourcefully masked by a hand or telephone receiver! Lyn Murray receives credit for 'scoring' the music, but some of those woodwind chords sound decidedly Herrmannesque.)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 106m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel
Synopsis:
A former jewel thief turned Resistance hero comes out of retirement in Nice to expose the perpetrator of a new spate of cat burglaries. He is hindered by the police and his former cronies, who resent being on permanent probation, and aided by a Lloyds insurance agent and wealthy American heiress.
Review:
A Hitchcock which admittedly provides little in the way of cliffhanging thrills, or even deadly peril, much less a comprehensible plot, but which offers plentiful sophisticated entertainment and is always cinematic, in spite of taking time out for sexy banter. Everyone and everything looks a treat, in Technicolor and Vistavision, and it all seems like the record of a wonderful holiday cast and crew spent together; Grace Kelly decided to stay so the dream wouldn't end. (Charles Vanel's English was evidently so non-existent he had to be dubbed - badly, his mouth at times resourcefully masked by a hand or telephone receiver! Lyn Murray receives credit for 'scoring' the music, but some of those woodwind chords sound decidedly Herrmannesque.)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 106m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel
Synopsis:
A former jewel thief turned Resistance hero comes out of retirement in Nice to expose the perpetrator of a new spate of cat burglaries. He is hindered by the police and his former cronies, who resent being on permanent probation, and aided by a Lloyds insurance agent and wealthy American heiress.
Review:
A Hitchcock which admittedly provides little in the way of cliffhanging thrills, or even deadly peril, much less a comprehensible plot, but which offers plentiful sophisticated entertainment and is always cinematic, in spite of taking time out for sexy banter. Everyone and everything looks a treat, in Technicolor and Vistavision, and it all seems like the record of a wonderful holiday cast and crew spent together; Grace Kelly decided to stay so the dream wouldn't end. (Charles Vanel's English was evidently so non-existent he had to be dubbed - badly, his mouth at times resourcefully masked by a hand or telephone receiver! Lyn Murray receives credit for 'scoring' the music, but some of those woodwind chords sound decidedly Herrmannesque.)