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	DVD Verdict Review - To Catch A Thief
		From the performances of Grant and Kelly, to the majestic cinematography of Robert Burks, the masterful pacing of editor George Tomasini, and the playfully romantic score of composer Lyn Murray, To Catch a Thief is a jewel in crown of film history.
		In fact, there is an eerie prophetic moment in To Catch a Thief during which we glimpse the Princess' ultimate fate, as she speeds along the Riviera's winding cliff-hugging roads.
		To Catch a Thief is one painting in the Hitchcock collection he did for himself—for fun.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/tocatchathief.shtml (1189 words)

	To Catch a Thief (1955)
		Where Rear Window was a claustrophobic film that took place in a solitary apartment and its immediate courtyard, To Catch A Thief was one of the more open and visually striking Hitchcock films to date.
		To Catch A Thief is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and receives anamorphic treatment from the fine folks at Paramount.
		In To Catch A Thief, a very tanned and fit Cary Grant stars as John “The Cat” Robie, a famed cat burglar in France before World War II and one who would come to fight on the side of the French Resistance Army.
	www.dvdmg.com /tocatchathief.shtml (2016 words)

	DVD Review - To Catch A Thief
		"Alfred Hitchcock and To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation" is a featurette that allows Hitchcock’s daughter Pat and his granddaughter to reflect on the film, and Alfred Hitchcock as a person and filmmaker.
		For those unfamiliar with this great film, "To Catch A Thief" is a crime caper with a bit romance and comedy sprinkled in.
		It tells the story of John Robie (Cary Grant), an infamous jewel thief called "The Cat" whose turf are the upper-class hotels of the French Riviera.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/to_catch_a_thief.shtml (736 words)

	To Catch A Thief (1955)
		The film's title, To Catch a Thief, was based upon the ancient proverb: "Set a thief to catch a thief," with double meanings regarding a double-chase.
		To Catch A Thief (1955) is a Hitchcock-directed, lush, entertaining comedy/thriller concerning jewel heists on the French Riviera.
		When the police finally catch up with his car after chasing him through spectacular scenery [a similar car chase returning to Robie's villa symmetrically ends the film], and both cars are blocked by a herd of sheep, they realize that they have been diverted - Germaine is driving his car.
	www.filmsite.org /toca.html (3103 words)

	Book collecting, first editions: Firsts Magazine for book collectors - April, 2002
		To Catch a Thief, the basis for the Hitchcock film, is easily the most expensive of Dodge& works.
		To Catch a Thief, a novel by David Dodge, a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
		During the 1940s, when radio drama was the center of family entertainment in America, Corwin was known as “the Shakespeare of broadcasting.” From the outset, his work appeared in books; some 60 of his best radio plays have been collected into books.
	www.firsts.com /Apr02.html (189 words)

	A Tribute to Grace Kelly
		Among other things, Kelly was the ideal "Hitchcock blonde," and appeared in three films by The Master: Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955).
		During the filming of Thief with Cary Grant on the Riviera, she met the Prince, and the rest is history.
		Her last movie was High Society, a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, with a plot that was full of Though she was regularly offered film roles, she never acted again.
	www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa110401a.htm (640 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In To Catch a Thief (1955), glamorous blonde Grace Kelly offers to help someone she believes is a cat burglar.
		To Catch a Thief, set in the French Riviera, starred Kelly and Cary Grant.
		In 1956, Hitchcock also remade his 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much, this time with James Stewart and Doris Day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock (4366 words)

	TO CATCH A THIEF
		Sure, there's suspense, but TO CATCH A THIEF is more about the lovely location (the French Riviera), the clothes and the love between a spoiled American heiress and a wanted jewel thief nicknamed The Cat.
		He is, after all, an infamous thief for whom expensive jewels are supposedly irresistible.
		The revelation of the real thief isn't much of a surprise, but you won't really care.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsT/f_to_catch.html (235 words)

	To Catch A Thief
		Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief (1955) is easily surpassed by Rear Window (1954) and North By Northwest (1959).
		In typical Hitchcock fashion, Robie has to elude the authorities while tracking down the real thief.
		John Robie (Cary Grant) is a retired master jewel thief famously known as "Le Chat" ("The Cat"), whose heroic efforts in the French Resistance earned him parole.
	www.comcen.com.au /~agfam/alvy/tcat.html (620 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: To Catch a Thief (Widescreen)
		Unlike most Hitchcock's most famous films, TO CATCH A THIEF offers nothing dark to trouble our thoughts, and it is perhaps best regarded as a romantic fantasia, the director's vacation from his more typical material.
		To Catch A Thief marks a departure for director Alfred Hitchcock.
		To Catch A Thief is recommended for any Hitchcock fan..
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JJX8 (1238 words)

	The DVD Journal Quick Reviews: To Catch a Thief
		But by the mid-'50s Hitch was ready to shoot To Catch a Thief, a film property he had owned for several years, and location work on the French Riviera was put on the schedule.
		If Robie is the thief set "to catch a thief," then Frances is set upon catching a thief as well (Robie), using her sexual allure to absorb his identity for her own purposes — something the mysterious new "Cat" is doing after dark.
		To Catch a Thief was "lightweight material" (by the director's own admission), but it was a welcome diversion when it arrived.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/tocatchathief.q.shtml (948 words)

	Alive Shop :: To Catch a Thief
		Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief is a light, fluffly picture that differs in content over much of the suspense masters other pictures.
		Since the only way to clear himself is to catch the thief himself, he hooks up with an insurance agent whose company is paying out the claims on all the robberies and begins a game of cat and mouse with the thief.
		Robie, posing as a lumber tycoon from Oregon, wants to keep they and their diamonds company until the thief strikes.
	www.aliveshop.com /B00005JJX8/To_Catch_a_Thief.html (1168 words)

	DVD review of To Catch A Thief - DVD Town
		However, cruise control remains cruise control, and if a filmgoer’s first Hitchcock experience is “To Catch a Thief”, he/she may be left wondering about all the fuss concerning the “master of suspense”.
		The film’s title refers to both Robie’s quest to catch the real thief as well as to Stevens’s seduction of Robie.
		The best way to enjoy “To Catch a Thief” may be to focus on little touches such as shots of a black cat skittering across tiled rooftops, Grace Kelly’s gorgeous costumes (designed by the legendary Edith Head), and the French-ness of the production.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/tocatchathief/10639/1400 (1089 words)

	To Catch A Thief (Special Edition) DVD Review - Time Out Film
		To Catch A Thief (Special Edition) DVD Review - Time Out Film
		Alfred Hitchcock& To Catch a Thief : An Appreciation
		Perpetually described as "minor" and "Hitchcock Light", (as if the film needed any excuse for being exactly what you see)this 1955 widescreen, technicolor souffle is as witty and beautiful to look at as any film made during the fifties.
	www.timeout.com /film/dvd/94018.html (220 words)

	To Catch A Thief - Intro & Plot Synopsis
		To Catch A Thief was filmed entirely in one of the most lovliest places on earth, the Cote D'Azur in the south of France.
		To Catch A Thief is one of Hitchcock's lighter and funnier films, which makes the movie a smashing sucess with audiences!
		Unfortunatly there are not many web pages out there for To Catch A Thief, but there are several Hitchcock pages that have mini features on the film, so check out our Hitchcock links.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/6494/tcat1.html (579 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Dial M for Murder (1954), Alfred Hitchcock, Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, dvd review
		To Catch a Thief was the Master's one exercise in Cinemascope, and, for some astonishingly dumb reason, Paramount has yet to release it in a letterboxed version.
		That is, all except for two of them, To Catch a Thief (1955) and Dial M for Murder (1954).
		I've been waiting almost my whole life to see it in its 3-D format, and I got my wish.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /dialm.shtml (643 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Man Who Knew Too Much
		I've seen To Catch a Thief and been impressed, but I'll admit I was mostly distracted by the beauty of Grace Kelly.
		In this film, as Ben McKenna, Stewart is still the embodiment of small-town USA, but when his son is kidnapped, we catch glimpses of his harsher, more aggressive side.
		Still, as the saying goes, "I know what I like." The Man Who Knew Too Much is, as I understand it, generally not regarded as one of Hitch's best, but I found it tense and fascinating.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/manwhoknewtoomuch.shtml (2108 words)

	A David Dodge Companion
		His most famous novel is To Catch a Thief, set in the French Riviera, which Alfred Hitchcock turned into a film in 1955 starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.
		Thereafter he drew on his travels -- he went on assignments around the world for Holiday and other magazines -- as material for a series of humorous personal travel journals and as backgrounds for mystery thrillers in exotic locations.
		He and Elva are buried in San Miguel de Allende, where Kendal now resides.
	www.david-dodge.com (308 words)

	To Catch a Thief II [page 8]
		To Catch a Thief III comes to a close.
		Oh, it was just some foreign film a friend lent to me.
		He didn't go for it and the boardwalk returns to its quiet normalcy with walkers and joggers enjoying the beautiful day.
	www.thedose.com /features/to_catch_a_thief/3/page8.html (42 words)

	To Catch a Thief movie review for Grace Kelly's Birthday - Today in History
		Grace Kelly had already made 2 other movies with Hitchcock, but To Catch a Thief would be a more beautiful film.
		In 1955, To Catch a Thief was released by Alfred Hitchcock.
		John Robie, played by Grant, was a retired thief that the police think has returned to his bad habits.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art25855.asp (227 words)

	To Catch a Thief Movie Poster
		Even though this film isn't really considered by most experts to be a cinematic masterpiece, as are most of Hitchcock's films in this era, To Catch a Thief still is beautifully filmed, "almost like a travelogue", and really is a lot of light-hearted fun.
		The film takes place on the coast of the French Riviera, where a debonair supposedly reformed ex-jewelry "Cat Burgler", John Robie (Grant), arrives on the scene and is assumed to be the culpret of a new rash of thefts from ritzy hotels in Cannes....but, is he the one?
		At any rate, the little blue sports car is beautiful, the scenery above the French Riviera during the "follow" is gorgeous, riding along with Grant and Kelly en-route to their picnic is kind of fun, and so, there ya go.
	www.sd455.com /moviethief.htm (325 words)

	"Once a Thief"
		Inspired by Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, the film takes its title from a 1964 film starring Alain Delon, one of Woo's favorite actors.
		All films sold by 1-World Festival of Foreign Films are in North American format
		A favorite of Woo fans, filled with wonderful comic moments and especially charming performances from the three leads.
	www.1worldfilms.com /China/onceathief.htm (325 words)

	"Once a Thief"
		Inspired by Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, the film takes its title from a 1964 film starring Alain Delon, one of Woo's favorite actors.
		All films sold by 1-World Festival of Foreign Films are in North American format
		A favorite of Woo fans, filled with wonderful comic moments and especially charming performances from the three leads.
	www.1worldfilms.com /China/onceathief.htm (325 words)

	North By Northwest (1959)
		One of the film's posters advertised: "Only Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock ever gave you so much suspense in so many directions." The film paired debonair Cary Grant with director Hitchcock for the fourth and last time: their earlier collaborations were in Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), and To Catch a Thief (1955).
		The title of the film is an anomaly and a clue to the absurd, confused plot in which no one is what he/she appears to be - there is no sharply delineated N by NW on a compass - it is an improbable direction.
		The box-office hit film is one of the most entertaining movies ever made and one of Hitchcock's most famous suspense/mystery stories in his entire career.
	www.filmsite.org /nort.html (2950 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Entrapment
		Writers Ron Bass ("Rain Man") and William Broyles ("Apollo 13") don't have much experience with this sort of thing, but their script echoes so many 1950s and '60s heist movies that it could have cast Audrey Hepburn (think "How to Steal a Million") and Cary Grant (think "To Catch a Thief") without changing a word.
		In its often-telegraphed deceptions, "Entrapment" seems at times to unfold by the numbers: Spy Films 101 come to life.
		She'd have made a marvelous Bond babe, except that in "Entrapment" she may or may not be out to trap Bond, er, Connery, in flagrante delicto.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=1175 (440 words)

	To Catch a Thief movie for sale
		Cary Grant is devastatingly elegant as the reformed thief, John Robie, and charming enough to attract the attention of the lovely Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), a wealthy and spoiled American traveling the Riviera with her widowed mother (Jessie Royce Landis).
		The film offers many beautifully photographed scenes of the Riviera, including a now-classic fireworks sequence.
		He is assisted by a rich, young American woman, and as they track down the thief, they fall in love with one another.
	www.1stvideo.com /detail2.asp?Product_ID=1021560&PRelRefNum=6&TAN=1 (646 words)

	sfweekly.com Film Redemption Thong
		As it is, the Ratner Pack here acknowledges just one of its many "sources," and the casual mention of Hitchcock's beguiling comic thriller To Catch a Thief on the same screen with this drivel is enough to cause you to spill your popcorn.
		This director and these writers owe apologies to many, including Jules Dassin, who gave us the ultimate jewel heist film, Topkapi, in 1964; the makers of every buddy flick from Midnight Cowboy to Beverly Hills Cop; and any movie in Hollywood's long history involving any sort of seduction.
		While trying to be all things to all genres, it reduces each of them to insignificance.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2004-11-10/film/film3.html (533 words)

	Thomas Hibbs on After the Sunset on National Review Online
		At one point in the film, the camera scans a DVD copy of To Catch a Thief, the Hitchcock film starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant: a movie, unlike this one, replete with mystery and intrigue and terrific chemistry between the main characters.
		Like any leading man in a heist film, Burdett manages to be attracted to the leading lady for short periods of time, but the pathetic routine is tiresome.
		Salma Hayek does a decent job playing the athletic tough girl in the opening heist scene, but beyond that, all she has to offer are the glorious contours of her mesmerizing physique.
	www.nationalreview.com /hibbs/hibbs200411170827.asp (651 words)

	CityBeat: Casino Royale (2001-12-06)
		Ocean's Eleven is Soderbergh's fluff film, not at all different from Alfred Hitchcock's caper film, To Catch a Thief.
		His debut film, sex, lies and videotape, a dysfunctional drama about one man's inability to maintain a monogamous relationship, remains a watershed work in American film.
		While Ocean's Eleven is not a mindless blockbuster, it pales when compared against some of Soderbergh's past films: sex, lies and videotape (1989), King of the Hill (1993), Gray's Anatomy (1996) and Traffic (2000).
	www.citybeat.com /2001-12-06/film2.shtml (651 words)

	Roman Holiday (1953)
		Following, we find a nice feature on Edith Head, the costume designer for Roman Holiday and other classic films such as To Catch A Thief, Funny Face, White Christmas and A Place in the Sun.
		Over the course of the film, we see a transformation in Ann, as she realizes the timid and frightened person she was and the type of person that she must become in order to be an effective leader for her people.
		It was one of the better films of the 1950’s; it is one of reputed director William Wyler’s best outings; and has the splendid distinction of introducing the world to Audrey Hepburn— one of the classiest and most beautiful women to ever walk the face of the earth, much less grace the big screen.
	www.dvdmg.com /romanholiday.shtml (651 words)

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