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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 ...
Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle star in this 1960 film directed by John Gilling. The Challenge, released as It Takes a Thief in the US, is a restored version available on Internet Archive.
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.
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.
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 ...
After a series of daring, nighttime jewel thefts creates panic among the Riviera's wealthy elite, American-born John Robie, a reformed burglar who used to be known as "The Cat," becomes the police's only suspect. When police detectives come to question him at his hilltop villa near Cannes, John cleverly eludes them.
