To Catch a Thief (1955)






Hitchcock on the French Riviera with debonair Cary Grant as a former cat burglar forced out of retirement to catch a new thief who is copying his methods. Grace Kelly adds cool blonde beauty and slick repartee. 1


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 3076

Books with substantial mentioning of To Catch a Thief

Mark William Padilla
Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong man and Grace Kelly films
Lanham, Maryland, 2019

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Donald Deschner
The Films of Cary Grant
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Articles on To Catch a Thief

Benedict Neuenfels, To Catch a Thief, in: epd Film, nr. 8, 2011 pp. 37