After Robie ensures a ‘chance’ encounter at the gambling tables, the family is quite taken with his charm. Jessie Stevens and her daughter, Frances. The first name on the list leads him to Mrs. Hughson (John Williams), who compiles a list of the most expensive jewelry insured in the area, a potential list of targets for the would-be cat burglar tarnishing Robie’s name. Robie turns to his friends from the French Resistance during the war, now working at a restaurant under his old friend Bertani (Charles Vanel), who instructs him to speak with someone he knows in the insurance business, H.H. As police pay Robie a visit wanting him to accompany them to the station for questioning, Robie creates a diversion that allows him to elude capture so he can investigate himself who is trying to pin the blame on him, as he knows the police won’t believe he truly is retired from criminal life. The newspapers report that the thefts bear a striking resemblance to the style of John Robie, a convicted jewel thief since released. To Catch a Thief opens on a beautiful morning in the French Riviera as several people wake to discover their jewelry missing. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.” His plan backfires, however, and Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape.
Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Grace Kelly), he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother’s (Jessie Royce Landis) fabulous jewels. When Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, he must set out to clear himself. “Cary Grant is John Robie, reformed jewel thief who was once known as “The Cat,” in this suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock classic: presented here newly remastered from a 4k film transfer.
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