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October 21, 2017
About "To Catch a Thief", THE_FALCON
I've commented:
Though, while there's certainly a
forced, clumsy quality to much of
Hitchcock's "suspense", I don't see
too much of it in this film.
But really, there's one small example
that comes to mind, having watched this It was regular fare for television
film multiple times throughout my life-- rebroadcasts when I was a kid, and
I've got a copy on VHS tape.
There's a largely light-hearted scene
that takes place at a bathing beach--
Two women are openly fighting over the TOADKEEPER
Cary Grant character, and he has to
hide that he thinks this is funny. Once, while watching the movie "High
Noon", my brother commented on the
Near the end of the scene, pattern (he called it an
Hitchcock has to remind us "archetype") of the male main
that he's Hitchcock, so the character choosing between a blonde
camera zooms in on someone and a brunette: he goes with the
on the scene (a guy doing blonde even though you always think
pull-ups) and there's a he's crazy.
flourish of ominious music
that informs us that there "To Catch a Thief" is an
is something sinister about excellent example: a
this fellow. Perhaps he's a blond American ice queen
spy for the police? vs. an adventurous young
French babe... and you
Or perhaps he's just some go with the blonde?
random guy hanging around What's wrong with you?
at the beach. He plays no
role whatsover in the
following story, which is
why I suspect that many
viewers have simply edited
him out of their memory.
And maybe Hitchcock, the
great master of suspense,
was a shamelessly
manipulative little weasel.
CHEAP_SUSPENDERS
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