The Big Picture It would not be an overstatement to say that Alfred Hitchcock is the single most influential commercial filmmaker of all time. By merging artistic sensibilities with narratives that appealed to a broad audience, Hitchcock helped pioneer the concept of a “star director” long before Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese began their careers.
Release Date August 3, 1955 Director Alfred Hitchcock Cast Cary Grant , Grace Kelly , Jessie Royce Landis , John Williams Runtime 106 Alfred Hitchcock Convinced Cary Grant to End His Retirement Although he was only in his mid-50s by the time he considered retirement, Grant had become one of the most signature movie stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Although he planned to retire to spend more time with his family, Grant was unable to turn down a meeting with Hitchcock. While the notion of playing a cat burglar in the film that would become To Catch a Thief intrigued him, Grant was resistant to reading any of Hitchcock’s scripts, fearing that the “Master of Suspense” would attempt to lure him out of retirement.
Given the parallels with his own proposed retirement, Grant gives a very self-aware performance in To Catch a Thief that ranks among the best work of his career. Similar to Grant himself, Robie is a seasoned professional who is forced through mitigating circumstances to return to his old profession, where he must prove that he hasn’t lost any of the skills that made him so successful in the first place.
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