To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel
directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
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Studio: Paramount Home VideoRelease Date: 05/08/2007Run time: 106 minutes
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One of the creamiest of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films, To Catch a Thief is something like pure pleasure. Begin ticking off the ingredients of this 1955 movie and you'll get the picture:Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, the French Riviera, champagne, fireworks, cat burglary. Mmm, it already feels good. Grant plays a retired thief who becomes a suspect when valuable things begin disappearing along the Cote d'Azur. The diamonds hanging from the well-sculpted neck of Grace Kelly would appear to be the newest target, but it's just possible that actual romance might also be wafting through the Mediterranean air. The lightness of the story keeps To Catch a Thief from being one of the masterpieces of Hitchcock's great run in the 1950s, but it is very difficult to cavil about the sunny locations, Grant's elegant aplomb, and Kelly's shrewd withholding of her sexual interest beneath the ice-queen exterior. John Michael Hayes provided the amusing script (which stretches double entendres to their limit, especially in a romantic discussion of fried chicken), Edith Head the splendid costumes. If the movie has any weight at all, it's in proving that at this point in his career Hitchcock was consumed with charting the tricky terrain of male-female courtship; if issues of trust are treated here with a light touch, they nevertheless matter as much as the mechanical working-out of Mr. H's suspense stories. --Robert Horton
Studio: Paramount Home VideoRelease Date: 05/08/2007Run time: 106 minutes
Amazon.com:
One of the creamiest of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films, To Catch a Thief is something like pure pleasure. Begin ticking off the ingredients of this 1955 movie and you'll get the picture:Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, the French Riviera, champagne, fireworks, cat burglary. Mmm, it already feels good. Grant plays a retired thief who becomes a suspect when valuable things begin disappearing along the Cote d'Azur. The diamonds hanging from the well-sculpted neck of Grace Kelly would appear to be the newest target, but it's just possible that actual romance might also be wafting through the Mediterranean air. The lightness of the story keeps To Catch a Thief from being one of the masterpieces of Hitchcock's great run in the 1950s, but it is very difficult to cavil about the sunny locations, Grant's elegant aplomb, and Kelly's shrewd withholding of her sexual interest beneath the ice-queen exterior. John Michael Hayes provided the amusing script (which stretches double entendres to their limit, especially in a romantic discussion of fried chicken), Edith Head the splendid costumes. If the movie has any weight at all, it's in proving that at this point in his career Hitchcock was consumed with charting the tricky terrain of male-female courtship; if issues of trust are treated here with a light touch, they nevertheless matter as much as the mechanical working-out of Mr. H's suspense stories. --Robert Horton
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- Starring the French Riviera... and Grace Kelly, too
Another Paramount classic, given the lavish "Centennial Collection" treatment - Cary Grant at the height of his powers as the suave and debonair reformed jewel-thief, once known as "The Cat",Alfred Hitchcock at the height of his own directorial powers, Grace Kelly in her last big-screen role as the willful heiress ... and the French Riviera in all of it's mid-century glory. Tiny villages with weathered tile roofs cling to the mountain ridges, classical villas with formal gardens overlook the distant ... Read More
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- To Catch a Thief - classic Hitchcock with great dialogue
Classic Hitchcock with great dialogue between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly - what's not to like?
Rating: - The 2009 Centennial Collection of "To Catch a Thief" is THE definitive version to own on DVD!
Beautiful, well-casted and a classic romantic, suspenseful thriller from Alfred Hitchcock.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
"TO CATCH A THIEF" looks great for a 1955 film on DVD.One thing that Hitchcock really utilized on this film is color.From the beauty of France, set design, costume design.Everything was well done and vibrant.The film looks beautiful and is featured in Widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TV's.
As for the audio, audio is presented in Dolby Digital English 2.0 Surround/English, ... Read More
Rating: - There's a reason they're called classics
Hitchcock, Cary Grant, fantastic color, beautiful scenery (including Grace Kelly); they really don't make 'em like this anymore.
Rating: - To Catch a Thief
What can I say about an Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, set in the south of France, that hasn't been said before?
Marvelous, it's one of my favorite films of all times, great comedy- Jessie Royce Landis as Grace Kelly's nouveau rich, great-hearted mother is funny and fabulous!- The stars are superb and the background, both the Cote d'Azur as background to the story and the real-life background of Grace Kelly's meeting Prince Rainier during filming, make it all the more enjoyable. If you ... Read More
- Starring the French Riviera... and Grace Kelly, tooAnother Paramount classic, given the lavish "Centennial Collection" treatment - Cary Grant at the height of his powers as the suave and debonair reformed jewel-thief, once known as "The Cat",Alfred Hitchcock at the height of his own directorial powers, Grace Kelly in her last big-screen role as the willful heiress ... and the French Riviera in all of it's mid-century glory. Tiny villages with weathered tile roofs cling to the mountain ridges, classical villas with formal gardens overlook the distant ... Read More
- To Catch a Thief - classic Hitchcock with great dialogueClassic Hitchcock with great dialogue between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly - what's not to like?
- The 2009 Centennial Collection of "To Catch a Thief" is THE definitive version to own on DVD!Beautiful, well-casted and a classic romantic, suspenseful thriller from Alfred Hitchcock.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
"TO CATCH A THIEF" looks great for a 1955 film on DVD.One thing that Hitchcock really utilized on this film is color.From the beauty of France, set design, costume design.Everything was well done and vibrant.The film looks beautiful and is featured in Widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TV's.
As for the audio, audio is presented in Dolby Digital English 2.0 Surround/English, ... Read More
- There's a reason they're called classicsHitchcock, Cary Grant, fantastic color, beautiful scenery (including Grace Kelly); they really don't make 'em like this anymore.
- To Catch a ThiefWhat can I say about an Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, set in the south of France, that hasn't been said before?
Marvelous, it's one of my favorite films of all times, great comedy- Jessie Royce Landis as Grace Kelly's nouveau rich, great-hearted mother is funny and fabulous!- The stars are superb and the background, both the Cote d'Azur as background to the story and the real-life background of Grace Kelly's meeting Prince Rainier during filming, make it all the more enjoyable. If you ... Read More
