Golden Classics: “To Catch a Thief” (1955), 中文名: 捉贼记

编剧: David Dodge / 约翰 迈克尔 海耶斯 (John Michael Hayes)
导演: 阿尔弗雷德 希区柯克 Alfred Hitchcock
主演: 加里 格兰特 Cary Grant / 格蕾斯 凯利 Grace Kelly / 杰西 罗伊斯 兰迪斯 Jessie Royce Landis
制片国家/地区: 美国； 上映年度: 1955； 语言: 英语

剧情简介

最近城里的屡屡发生珠宝劫案， 警察们都束手无策。 因为贼人的手法和以前闻名的大盗 “黑猫” 约翰 （加里•格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）如出一辙， 警察们找上了正在乡间别墅过着悠闲生活的约翰。 约翰当然不会轻易就范， 他摆脱了警察之后， 开始调查到底是谁用他的手法屡屡作案。毫无头绪的约翰找到了以前的战友巴先生， 却被巴先生餐馆里的人视作不速之客。 幸好在侍者孚的女儿的帮助下， 约翰来到了嘎纳海滩。在保险公司经理的帮助下， 约翰展开了他的抓贼行动。

In fact, rather more of David Dodge’s original novel made it to the screen than he would have people believe. Dodge was an American accountant who had become a writer almost by accident when his wife bet him $5 that he couldn’t write a better mystery novel than the one he was reading. He won the bet and created a series of novels, which enabled him to engage his great love of travel: rather than travelling to find something to write about, Dodge wrote to enable him to afford the then still high cost of foreign travel. It was when his travels took him to the French Rivera that Le Chat was born.

Published in January 1952, “To Catch a Thief” was partially inspired by the exploits of real-life cat-burglar. It proved an instant hit with critics and readers alike. Hitchcock had indeed bought the right himself and put the project on the fast track to production at Paramount Studios. Hitchcock hired a screenwriter to adapt the novel, even sending him and his wife to the Rivera for two weeks so that he wouldn’t have to constantly describe the location to him.