To Catch a Thief (PG)

Screening as part of the new Peacock Cinema Summer Classics Season at Carnegie Hall. A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most glamorous and effervescent films, the deliciously suspenseful romantic thriller To Catch a Thief stars Cary Grant as a former cat burglar who is drawn out of retirement and into the arms of beautiful American heiress Grace Kelly. Frequent Hitchcock leading man Grant plays John Robie, a reformed jewel thief once known as “The Cat.” Robie becomes the prime suspect in a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he sets out to clear his name. Meeting pampered heiress Frances Stevens (Kelly), he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother’s fabulous jewels.