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To catch a thief blu ray1/14/2024 Francie however seems immune to his charms, until she realizes who he really is. Jessie falls head over heels for him, telling her daughter she’d make a pass at him if only she were younger but offers to “buy him” for her. The first victims listed are Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis) and her daughter Francie (Grace Kelly), two American tourists who Robie tries to befriend. Robie enlists an insurance salesman (a charming John Williams) who helps him come up with a list of the thief’s potential victims. In order to prove his innocence, Robie flees and hides with his old friends from the French Resistance who suggest he prove his innocence by finding the real thief. The thief in question perpetuates a series of robberies along the Riviera, sending policemen to the villa of John Robie “The Cat” (Cary Grant) a retired jewel burglar, whose style resembles the recent crimes. Hitchcock himself was on a “working vacation” when he decided to make this film, he figured that if he was going to France he might as well shoot his adaptation of David Dodge’s novel, proving the previous point. The darkness in this case doesn’t come near the necrophiliac Oedipus of Psycho or Vertigo, or the intricate conspiracies of North by Northwest and The 39 Steps, it concentrates instead on our inability to let go of everything when on vacation, how we always remember to pack our neuroses before we leave our homes. Its opening scene: a travel agency window featuring a poster that reads “If you love life, you’ll love France”, followed by leisurely snapshots of the French Riviera, establishes the delicious mood that will follow… If only for a minute, for soon the lush vistas are interrupted by a high pitched scream, a reminder that not even paradise could escape from the darkness of the Hitchcockian mind. Usually relegated to the status of “Hitchcock light” To Catch a Thief is undoubtedly the master’s most pleasurable work.
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