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A 1955 romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. It tells the story of a retired cat burglar who tries to clear his name by catching a new thief on the French Riviera.
To Catch a Thief: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams. A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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- Mystery, Romance, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1955-08-05
Watch the restored version of The Challenge, also known as It Takes a Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle. The film is a 1960 British neo noir crime film directed by John Gilling.
A former gang leader tries to recover the stolen loot and rescue his son from a ruthless gang led by Jayne Mansfield. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this British crime movie.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- John Gilling
- 1961-02
The action takes place in the springtime of 1954, and nearly all the characters in the novel (including Cary Grant, an Italian American mafioso nicknamed "Steve Cement", and two Parisian gangsters from Du rififi chez les hommes) cross each other's path in Cannes and Nice.
Cary Grant stars as a retired cat burglar who tries to clear his name of a series of jewel thefts in this suspenseful comedy. He falls for Grace Kelly's daughter, a spoiled heiress, and faces danger and romance on the French coast.
John Gilling’s The Challenge (US: It Takes a Thief) features one of the most perfect noir openings: a breathy female voice off-camera pleads sexily with a half-naked man, who rises from a bed in a dingy, smoke-clouded hotel room and ponders her proposition by the window, a train rumbling and a neon light flashing right outside, her naked leg ...
