Hughson (John Williams) convinces John to act like he’s scoping out the eccentric and wealthy Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis) and her frigid daughter Frances (Grace Kelly) in order to trap the real thief. When a series of copycat burglaries occur around the French Riviera, police automatically suspect John. It’s a really easy movie to watch and enjoy, even just for its visuals alone.īased on the novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge, the film stars Cary Grant as John Robie, aka The Cat, a notorious but retired jewel thief. While the film is appreciated, I don’t think it has the same kind of reputation as other films in Hitchcock’s stellar 1950s-early 1960s period.
The Cary Grant-Grace Kelly jewel thief thriller is one of Hitchcock’s breeziest, wittiest, and most glamorous films. And, To Catch a Thief is Hitchcock’s romantic-comedy. Shadow of a Doubt is Hitchcock’s WWII domestic drama. His films always had the Hitchcock touch of suspense, but he dressed his thrillers with the trappings of other genres. While he was known as the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock tried his hand at different genres.
