Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by John Michael Hayes adapted from David Dodge Roman.
Cary Grant--John Robie
Grace Kelly--Frances Stevens
Jessie Royce Landis--Jessie Stevens
John Williams-H.H. Hughson
Charles Vanel--Bertani
Brigitte Auber--Danielle Foussard
Jean Martinelli--Foussard
Georgette Anys-Germaine
Easy shot one of the most gorgeous and beautiful films ever. It is not an accident that it won the Robert Burks 1956 Academy Award for best photography, colour; An eye-candy of a tourism poster an entertainment. When you see it, you will also be a fan of the beauty of the French Riviera.
Cary Grant, as John Robie, again plays a well-meaning decent guy (despite his background as a notorious cat burglar) who finds himself embroiled in a fairy tale, which threatens to put him back in jail.
This time he is suspected of having committed the recent wave of thefts that have parted fattigdomsbyld from Nice from their precious jewels Robie maintains his innocence ... in vain.He is still best suspects police have. continue the French police to ride his tail.Robies only solution is to find the real alarm systems.
Robie showed, by working with an insurance agent h. h. Hughson (played by the prim and proper John Williams, who also played the police detective in another Hitchcock-Grace Kelly movies-Dial M for Murder, 1954).
Five parallels between "To Catch a Thief" (TCT) and Hitchcocks other classic "North by Northwest" (NBN), where Cary Grant has also participated:
1) In both movie player Grant a guy that gets the problems from the get go, practically just five minutes into the movie.
2) Both films have this famous scene in which a female character dangles from a high position and Cary Grant grabs her by the wrist at the last minute and grabs her to safety.She is the leading lady dangling tremendous relief, George Washington at Mount Rushmore in NBN. She is in TCT crook dangling from the roof of the Silva's Villa.
3) NBN has the famous crop duster aircraft scene. In TCT pursues a similar-looking police aircraft from low altitude boat, where Grant running away from the Nice harbor.
4) Jessie Royce Landis, who plays "Jessie Stevens" in TCT plays Cary Grant's mother in NBN (although Grant was ten years her senior).Landis was played by Grace Kelly's mother, not only in TCT but in "The Swan" (1956) and.
5) In NBN makes his mark appearance by Hitchcock, stepping on to a public bus on a city bus station. In TCT, Makes his mark appearance by Hitchcock sitting right next to Grant as an anonymous passages in the row back in a passenger bus travel on French Riviera dusty back roads.
OTHER COMMENTS:
--This was the last film Grace Kelly shot with Hitchcock. Soon after, she married Prince Rainier of Monaco and left the film business for good. If she had not done it, she would have plunged definitively against Cary Grant in "North by Northwest."
--French actor Charles Vanel (as Bertani) could not speak a word in the Danish. All his lines were called.
--Half of the movie (most interiors) were shot at Paramount studious in Los Angeles.
--The film was shot with PanaVision technology, the leading competitor to Cinemascope technology then. In PanaVision technology ran the movie horizontally, not vertically.
--Screenwriter John Michael Hayes wrote that also other major Hitchcock classic, "Rear Window (1954)."
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