The police are called, but Robie has disappeared. Robie is accused by Frances of using her as a distraction so he could steal her mother's jewelry. The next morning, Jessie discovers her jewels are gone. She teases him with steamy tales of rooftop escapades and offers herself as an accomplice who might share his crimes.
She seduces him, dangling before him her jewels. When Robie and Frances run into Danielle at the beach, Robie keeps up the mask of being a wealthy American tourist, despite Danielle's jealous barbs about his interest in Frances.įrances sees through Robie's cover. Jessie's delighted but Frances offers a pretense of modesty. Tourists Jessie Stevens, a wealthy nouveau riche widow, and her daughter Frances, top the list. Hughson, who reluctantly obtains a list of the most expensive jewelry owners currently on the Riviera. He enlists the aid of an insurance man, H. Robie recognizes he can prove his innocence by catching the new Cat in the act. When the police arrive at Bertani's restaurant looking for Robie, Foussard's teenage daughter Danielle, who has a crush on him, spirits him to safety. Bertani, Foussard, and the others angrily blame Robie because they are all under suspicion so long as the new Cat is active. The staff are his old gang, paroled for their work in the French Resistance during World War II as long as they keep clean. He gives the police the slip at his hilltop villa. The pattern of a string of jewel robberies on the French Riviera causes the police to believe that the infamous jewel thief John "The Cat" Robie has left his comfortable retirement of growing grapes and flowers.
The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar who has to save his reformed reputation by catching an imposter preying on the wealthy tourists of the French Riviera. Grace Kelly stars opposite him as his romantic interest in her final film with Hitchcock. $8.75 Million USD 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 To Catch a Thief by David Dodge.
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