FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Alfred Hitchcock - To Catch a Thief  

If you depend on television or on such muppet formats as Netflix, you can hardly watch film classics anymore. A strange idea: A life without the Hollywood classics, which I love so much! So if you don't live near our video store, you can at least use our YouTube service. We are looking for films on YouTube that run it of good quality. Also classics! Just like Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief, in which a time revives that we almost forgot through today's rough and miserable America. The time of the American super-rich. Who knows, perhaps Hitchcock was one of the last people to present this type in such an extravagant, but also in such an adoring way: the kind of people who express their cigarettes in egg yolks. The setting for this: the south of France, which shines in cynicism, but also in discretion. And where else does the bright blue sky match the diamonds to which Hitchcock bows? That's why To Catch A Thief also starts with the screeching of a lady who had exactly these diamonds stolen. Cary Grant embodies John Robie, who leads an unobtrusive life on the Cote D'Azur. He used to be a jewel thief and that's why it's him you suspect right away. There's only one way Robie can clear his name: He must face the real thief. During this mission he meets the beautiful Francie, played by the ice-blond Grace Kelly. Francie is a spoiled American girl. Rich and bored, but the name John Robie makes her listen. Francie herself owns diamonds, which we understand as symbols of sex, but also of aloofness. Made for a thief! That's why she's trying to provoke Robie. He is like an "American in an english movie". Not authentic. That may be Francy's opinion, but it's not mine! I think Cary Grant is fantastic in his role! He plays Hitchcock's favourite part of the wrongly suspected man in a completely different way. Hitchcock's characters were always impeccable, yet they were mostly to blame (from a certain perspective). Grant, however, confuses not only Francie. He's not so much impeccable as he is decent. And innocent?