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Summary: A Classic Hitchcock Masterpiece
Review: What a fantastic movie! Very suspenseful and beginning-to-end thrill and excitement throughout. Stars 2 of the world's most famous actors for the silver screen; the legendary Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. I honestly think this is Princess Grace's best film, and never was she more beautiful and stunning. They both should have won Oscar's for this movie. Now, this film met all of Hitchcock's usual standards, and, in my opinion, was just as good as the other 1959 Masterpiece, North By Northwest, which you will absolutely LOVE if you loved this one. Trust me, this movie is well worth buying on tape; however, it does air on T.V. often, so catch it then. I Love Grace Kelly!
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Summary: VERY NICE
Review: Cary Grant was wonderful as always and Grace Kelly lives up to her name. You can understand why she became the princess of Monaco soon after this movie. Hichcock is the master of suspence, watch for his scene, it is rather comic. [He always puts himself breifly in his movies.] One thing I found interesting was the young flicks playing hackey sac on the roadside by their Citroen' to pass the time while following The Cat [Grant]. I had imagined hackey sac to be a fairly recent American invention but it figures that the French who gave us kickboxing would be doing it first. They likely stole the idea from the Romans who got it from the Greeks... Well THAT was a bit off But I really liked this movie and think you will too.
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Summary: An enjoyable diversion
Review: To Catch a Thief is a light comdey/mystery from Hitchcock. It isn't up to his North By Northwest or Rear Window standards, but it is an enjoyable diversion. Grant protrays a "retired" cat burglar who is suspected by the police of unretiring because of a rash of burglaries reminiscent of his style. Grant has to catch the impostor before the police catch him. Fine performances by Grant, John Williams as a Lloyd's of London insurance agent, Jessie Royce Landis, who plays Grace Kelly's mother (she played Grant's mother in NBNW) and Grace Kelly, who was at her stunningly best. It's worth the price of admission just to gaze upon the most beautiful face to grace the silver screen.
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Summary: Mayhem and Mystery in Monte Carlo.
Review: Delightful little Hitchcock movie and one of Grace Kellys last prior to her marriage.Filmed entirely on location in Monaco.Also starring Cary Grant in one of his more athletically challenging roles. Great scene at the start where John Robie escorts a supposedly frigid Frances Stevens to her hotel room and she thanks him with a long open mouthed kiss. Jessie Royce Landis gets all the good lines as Kellys wealthy but down-to-earth alcoholic mama."...do you mind if I have you investigated Mr Robie,youre just too good to be true..." Besides all the quick dialogue theres some great photography of the riviera in the mid 1950's before the serious tourist dollars moved in.A shady place for shady characters Somerset Maugham used to say and it was here also that Grace Kelly was introduced to the young Prince Rainier who was smitten...the rest is history. Not one of the masters best efforts but a fun movie all the same.
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Summary: Thriller with a lot of energy in it.
Review: This was my very first Cary Grant movie and it certainly won't be my last. Cary and the beautiful Grace Kelly spark it up in this very romantic drama situated on the Paris, France Riviera, one of the most romantic places in the world. This captivated my family and I when we watched it, and we continue to watch it time after time because this was an outstanding production involving two of the world's most talented and most beautiful actors.
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Summary: Wonderfully and beautifully made!
Review: Grace Kelly was absolutely at her best in this one. She was stunning. Cary Grant was also very good in his role as John Robie, the cat. Good Hitchcock thriller with wonderful actors!!!
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Summary: H.S.H. Princess Grace of Monaco is Marvelous!
Review: 'Her Serene Highness' the Princess Grace Grimaldi of Monaco was spectacular in "To Catch A Thief". This beautiful Princess of the South of France showed a marvelous performance with co-star Cary Grant, in this 1955 thriller. The whole plot deals with Grant and 'Her Serene Highness' trying to catch a cat burgler. You stay with the film the whole time, while trying to solve the movie's suspenseful mystery. If you want spunk, pagentry, romance, suspense, good looks, and royalty all in one film, then "To Catch A Thief" starring Cary Grant and H.S.H. Princess Grace is meant to be in the top of your video collection.
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Summary: The Riviera, diamonds and Cary Grant...What more can you ask
Review: Hitchcock gives us the sun-soaked Cote d'Azure, glamorous evenings with skies bursting with fireworks and quite possibly the only two people whose charisma can compete with all this---Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. It's la dolce vita with no apologies. To quote cast member John Williams: "It's a kind of travel-folder heaven!"
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Summary: Out of Sight, Episode 1...
Review: Grant puts on the tux. He looks at women. He is able to make woman swoon from 127 yards out. And to this day, that power will work on the loved-one that you watch this film with. This film is beautiful and clever in every way, in that it's a romance and a mystery-suspence film at the same time. Few films are capable of doing so, but a great script(featuring that oh-so-famous love scene with the fireworks) and wonderful acting pull it off rather nicely. Grant plays John Robie, "The Cat", a famous but reformed jewel thief who is in trouble with the law once again, due to a sudden rise in jewel theft by somebody who is copying his style down to the very last step. When the police come to arrest him, he escapes and ends up on a quest to figure out just who the culprit is. A lot of Hitchcock's stylish visuals are here. Including another cameo(beginning, bus scene) and the wonderful love scene that has been mentioned throughout Tinsel-Town for years. Some standouts include the thefts at the beginning when all you see is a solitary black cat crawling on the rooftops of apartments after tennants discover they have been robbed and Grace Kelly's famous twisting-drive on the road that she was killed on almost twenty years later. Wonderful addition to any Hitchcock fan's library. This film obviously inspired Soderberg and Leonard's OUT OF SIGHT, which came out last year. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to revive my fiance' as a result of Mr. Grant's stare. --Matt
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Summary: If you love...
Review: Cary Grant and/or Grace Kelly, you can't go wrong with this Hitchcock thriller. Grant is at his debonair best and Kelly is one of Hitch's greatest cool blondes. If you're into goulishness, Kelly drives the winding road on which she later met her death a couple of decades later in real life (almost TOO scary!).
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