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To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar who has to save his reformed reputation by catching an impostor preying on wealthy tourists (including an oil-rich widow and her daughter played by Grace Kelly ...
The Challenge, released as It Takes a Thief in the United States, is a 1960 British neo noir crime film directed by John Gilling and starring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle. Plot ... Sky Movies noted, "filled with such familiar leading men of British 'B' features as Peter Reynolds, Edward Judd, ...
It Takes a Thief: Directed by John Gilling. With Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner, Peter Reynolds. A gang leader dumps her criminal boyfriend when he is convicted of robbery, but he recovers the stolen loot once he's released. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps his son and demands the money as ransom.
It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in his television debut as sophisticated thief Alexander Mundy, who works for the U.S. government in return for his release from prison. For most of the series, Malachi Throne played Noah Bain, Mundy's boss.
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.
The Challenge, released as It Takes a Thief in the United States, is a 1960 British neo noir crime film directed by John Gilling and starring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle.. The film was shot in England from 12 October to around December 1959. Mansfield flew back to America on the 16th, after she finished filming.
Hitchcock had enjoyed working with John Michael Hayes on Rear Window and the screenwriter was hired to write To Catch a Thief towards the end of 1953. Whilst Rear Window was still post-production, Hitchcock arranged for Hayes and his wife to spend two weeks at the Hotel Carlton in Cannes researching the area in preparation for starting the screenplay.. By February 23rd, Hayes and Hitchcock had ...
Cary Grant had announced his retirement from acting in February 1953, stating that since the rise of Method actors like Marlon Brando, most people were no longer interested in seeing him.He was also angry at the way Charles Chaplin had been treated by the HUAAC. He was lured out of his retirement to make this film, and thereafter continued acting for a further 11 years.
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 finally extending upward from the camera as if ...
Even Masters of Suspense sometimes need a vacation. After his success with Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock found a unique way to go on holiday, traveling to the beaches of Southern France to make his next movie, To Catch a Thief (1955). However, the trip and movie had to pay for themselves. Hitch already had box-office gold in Grace Kelly, making her third consecutive appearance in one of ...
