Movie Review: To Catch a Thief (1955)
Aging director makes movie for young(ish) starlet
My wife tells me Hitchcock had a thing for Kelly and having seen this travesty I can believe it. Kelly is awful, her acting is so wooden it makes Climate Scientists sit up and go "Hey! Carbon Sequestration". Grant is his usual OK self. Although, having said that the idea that he fought in the French resistance was laughable. The only person who could act was the Kelly's mother, she made an abysmal movie into an ordinary one. The predictable plot, boring old Hitchcock shot, and far too many frocks turned a possibly OK movie into what this is. Don't believe others when they say Kelly is great. It's simply not enough to look good unless you have some charisma too (and it doesn't hurt to be able to act either).
In one word, turgid, in two words, Grace Kelly.
My wife tells me Hitchcock had a thing for Kelly and having seen this travesty I can believe it. Kelly is awful, her acting is so wooden it makes Climate Scientists sit up and go "Hey! Carbon Sequestration". Grant is his usual OK self. Although, having said that the idea that he fought in the French resistance was laughable. The only person who could act was the Kelly's mother, she made an abysmal movie into an ordinary one. The predictable plot, boring old Hitchcock shot, and far too many frocks turned a possibly OK movie into what this is. Don't believe others when they say Kelly is great. It's simply not enough to look good unless you have some charisma too (and it doesn't hurt to be able to act either).
In one word, turgid, in two words, Grace Kelly.
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