To Catch a Thief

Monday, February 28th, 2005

I’ve been catching up on my Hitchcock movies, and I just watched To Catch a Thief, which “stars Cary Grant as a former thief suspected of a new series of crimes and Grace Kelly as the woman who romances him.” For a thriller, it’s not particularly thrilling; the plot’s fairly simple, and the tension’s never that great.

That said, it’s a beautiful film, featuring (1) the French Riviera, and (2) Grace Kelly.

Cary Grant, by the way, is supposed to play the athletic former-acrobat turned cat burglar, but he doesn’t do anything particularly acrobatic and, like most leading men in the 1950s, he really doesn’t have a very athletic physique. The punch-line: he really was an acrobat in his youth!

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