To Catch a Thief (1954)

Hey a well known Hitchcock film I hadn’t seen. As all Hitchcock movies are suspense/mystery films perhaps its best to unpack them by there subgeneras, and in this case its defiantly a romance. Grace Kelly (this is the film that brought her to the south of France, ultimately a mixed blessing in her life) and Cary Grant are our couple, a first generation American heiress and a reformed former cat burglar trying to prove his innocence in a recent rash of jewel heists (and hence the tentative plot). One of Hitchcock’s subtler, less ambitious films, its not as spectacular or exciting as many of the directors 50's outings, but if you accept it on its own terms you’ll have a good low key time. Loved Jessie Royce Landis as Kelly's mother. Grade: B.