Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

TheBigSick Alfred Hitchcock has been long recognized as one of the greatest film directors of all time, and is famous for his slow-building approach to mystery thrillers. Nevertheless, he overdoes it in this film "To catch a thief". The pace is too slow, and many scenes are irrelevant to the resolve of the mystery and thus useless in pushing forward the plot.

adrian-43767 Hitchcock was in his best decade, the 50s. He had just made the sublime REAR WINDOW, also with Grace Kelly, and soon he would be making VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST and PSYCHO. It stands to reason that TO CATCH A THIEF is not bad at all, albeit not in the class of those masterpieces. It shows inspired directorial work, good acting by the extremely attractive leads, Grant and Kelly, magnificent VistaVision cinematography, great locations, and even some enticing one-liners and good humor.But the screenplay has quite a few holes and is ultimately fluffy. Still, one should never pass up on Hitchcock and TO CATCH A THIEF certainly deserves watching and going back to. I have watched it about once every five years, and never been bored.The sequence where Kelly suddenly drops her innocence act and kisses Grant is an absolute gem, and the film's most memorable moment.

animausimages 1955's "To Catch a Thief", directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, and Brigitte Auber. Hitchcock is of course hailed as an auteur master of suspense and tension, and his "Vertigo" regularly dukes it out with Welles' "Citizen Kane" for consideration of the greatest film of all time. However, "To Catch a Thief" plays it cool, with much less suspense than your typical Hitchcockian fare. Focusing on the exploits of a retired jewel thief (Cary Grant), he breezily lives in the South of France, and discovers that he needs to clear his name after the exploits from a copycat burglar put him at risk with the authorities. Grace Kelly shows up as the wealthy daughter of a potential target, who sees through Grant's charms. Their chemistry is palpable (I'm curious if their scene where they make out while fireworks flash in the background inspired the term, "...and then fireworks ensued?") and a treat. "TCaT" also won an Oscar for best cinematography, as Hitchcock was experimenting with wide angle lenses now common place today. But as the characters cruise around the cliffs of France, it's tough to say there's much else going on, other than some overt commentary on how nice being casually rich is.It was really interesting to watch the scene where Kelly recklessly speeds their car through twisty roads, as it was a traffic accident that killed her in real life. Fun and effortless entertainment, can only go so far it seems. By the end of the movie, you have to wonder at the surprise twist if it wasn't the person it needed to be for maximum effect. This is one caper that is guilty of relative underachievement.3/5For more thoughts, check out: http://animausimages.blogspot.ca/

Hitchcoc Pairing Cary Grant with Grace Kelly certainly put the pretty people of America on the screen big time. This is a classic film that has been copied many times. It involves a high powered jewel theft by a master criminal. But to attain this one must put a lot at risk. The strength of this is the script with a kind of sexual byplay between the two principles. Of course, we must remember that this is the fifties and it seems pretty tame. I always considered Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly to be the most beautiful actresses of their time (perhaps for all time). With the suave jewel thief Grant and the cool blonde Kelly, we have a formula for success. Of course, there is also Hitchcock. MOre lightweight than many of his other films but well worth seeing.