To Catch a Thief

     

To Catch a Thief1955

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Georgette Anys, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, Jean Martinelli
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 107 minutes

This minor 1955 work by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the lighter entries of his creative peak in the 1950s, is still imbued with the master's stock themes of shared guilt and romantic ambivalence. It is also hardly lacking in Hitchcockian cinematic inve… more »


H. H. Hughson:
You are a man of obvious good taste in everything. Why did you...

John Robie:
Why did I take up stealing? To live better, to own things I couldn't afford, to acquire this good taste that you now enjoy and which I should be very reluctant to give up.

H. H. Hughson:
Then you are frankly dishonest.

John Robie:
I try to be.

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