Rotten
It is a significant dud, and Grace Kelly's role has the virtue of making clearer the quality which excited so much attention in previous roles.
Delmore Schwartz, The New Republic
To Catch a Thief
WANTED by the police in all the luxury-spots of Europe!... A catch for any woman!
1955 · 1h 46m · PG
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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To Catch a Thief
Overview
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Cary Grant as John Robie
- Grace Kelly as Frances Stevens
- Jessie Royce Landis as Jessie Stevens
- John Williams as H. H. Hughson
- Charles Vanel as Bertani
- Brigitte Auber as Danielle Foussard
- Jean Martinelli as Foussard
- Georgette Anys as Germaine
- Bess Flowers as Masquerade party guest
- René Blancard as Commissaire Lepic (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Grant gives his role his assured style of acting, meaning the dialog and situations benefit. Kelly, too, dresses up the sequences in more ways than one.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
One of the most lightweight (and not even particularly deceptively so) of Hitchcock's comedy-thrillers; a retreat from the implications of Rear Window into the realm of private jokes and sunny innuendo.
Paul Taylor, Time Out
Fresh
To Catch a Thief does nothing but give out a good, exciting time. If you'll settle for that at a movie, you should give it your custom right now.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Alfred Hitchcock's fluffy 1955 exercise in light comedy, minimal mystery, and good-natured eroticism (the fireworks scene is a classic).
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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