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John Robie, the jewel thief once known as the Cat, was imprisoned before the war and paroled to fight the Germans. He now lives on the Riviera, where he grows grapes and flowers. A new wave of jewel robberies in his old style makes the police suspect him; they arrive at his villa to question him, and he slips away with help from his housekeeper Germaine. His old gang, paroled for their Resistance work, are under suspicion too and blame him. Robie decides to catch the new Cat himself. He asks insurance man H.H. Hughson for a list of the Riviera's most expensive jewels. The first name belongs to Jessie Stevens, a wealthy American widow traveling with her daughter Frances, and Robie strikes up an acquaintance with them, posing as an American businessman on vacation.
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- George Boyceas Party Guest (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about To Catch a Thief (1955)
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- Cary Grant took more than $700,000 from his 10% of the gross for To Catch a Thief, while director Alfred Hitchcock received less than $50,000.
- To Catch a Thief was the first of Alfred Hitchcock's five films made in the VistaVision widescreen process, and the last of three he made with Grace Kelly.
- It is the only Hitchcock film released by Paramount that Paramount still owns; the other five he made there, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo and Psycho, passed to his personal ownership eight years after release.
