Many people have probably heard or seen a certain scene from Hitchcock's ''Vertigo'' that was permeated with a green fog, a very alluring and seductive scene of the two lovers that I'm not going to describe in detail here. What I don't understand here is why one certain scene involving fireworks and a dark, intimate atmosphere between Cary Grant's and Grace Kelly's characters, Robie and Francie, didn't become as famous as the aforementioned one. It has all it needs to strike a chord in the viewer, yet if one looks for ''To catch a thief scene'' the scene doesn't even appear in the first 20 or so clips. You need to explicitly state ''fireworks'' in order to find it.
Leaving this aspect aside, I enjoyed most of this movie, I felt it dragged just a bit in the middle but towards the end everything paid off. The shadows and the colors here were of course just exquisite, there's something about some of the late Technicolor movies that just enraptures me, the hues are different from reality in such a pleasant way, that if I had the chance I'd choose to see the world in Technicolor all day long (well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration but you get my point). Something I don't seem to get used to in some of the 40's and 50's movies are the way the background looks when the car is moving, or maybe the car itself, I don't know for sure, but something seems off, this time unrealistic in a non-pleasant way. But that's never going to spoil my appreciation for any movie, if it just touches my heart and keeps me in suspense like ''To catch a Thief'' does.
An 8 out of 10 from me.
Leaving this aspect aside, I enjoyed most of this movie, I felt it dragged just a bit in the middle but towards the end everything paid off. The shadows and the colors here were of course just exquisite, there's something about some of the late Technicolor movies that just enraptures me, the hues are different from reality in such a pleasant way, that if I had the chance I'd choose to see the world in Technicolor all day long (well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration but you get my point). Something I don't seem to get used to in some of the 40's and 50's movies are the way the background looks when the car is moving, or maybe the car itself, I don't know for sure, but something seems off, this time unrealistic in a non-pleasant way. But that's never going to spoil my appreciation for any movie, if it just touches my heart and keeps me in suspense like ''To catch a Thief'' does.
An 8 out of 10 from me.