To Catch a Thief
1955, NR, 106 min.
D: Alfred Hitchcock; with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly.
Cary Grant plays a reformed cat burglar on the French Riviera who vindicates himself from new suspicions with the help of the beautifully bedecked Grace Kelly. Hitchcock tools this mistaken-identity tale as more of a romantic comedy than a thriller. It was during this location shoot that Kelly met Prince Rainier.
This article appears in November 5 • 1999.
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