Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Grace Kelly), he sees a. ![]() Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. But Grant's debonair and oddly unlocatable mid-Atlantic identity is absolutely right for the part. Gal Gadot Starring in ‘To Catch a Thief’ Remake Variety Home Film News 2:38pm PT ‘To Catch a Thief’ Remake in the Works With Gal Gadot By Brent Lang Priscilla Grant/Everett. Cary Grant plays John Robie, reformed jewel thief who was once known as 'The Cat,' in this suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller. Francie finds something inauthentic in Robie: "like an American in an English movie". Her own jewels are glittering symbols of sexual unavailability, and there is something almost outrageously metaphorical in their verbal fencing in her suite at the Carlton hotel, as the fireworks explode outside. He can only clear his name by collaring the real culprit – and while on this person's trail, he encounters the beautiful heiress Francie: the stunningly ice-blond Grace Kelly, pampered, bored and turned on by John's reputation. Cary Grant plays John Robie, reformed jewel thief who was once known as 'The Cat,' in this suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller. Cary Grant is John Robie, the reformed cat burglar living quietly on the Côte d'Azur, under suspicion for carrying out a spate of daring jewel thefts in Nice and Cannes. Diamonds are what the movie worships amid the sapphire-blue of the Mediterranean and cloudless skies Hitchcock wittily begins by disrupting those tourist images with a scream of horror from a woman whose valuables have been swiped. ![]() The south of France is resplendent in all its cynicism and discretion. ![]() Hitchcock's superbly insouciant crime caper from 1955 must surely be one of the last movies in which the American super-rich are indulged so extravagantly and adoringly – the kind of people who stub their cigarettes out in fried eggs.
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