Continuity mistake: When Cary Grant and the insurance agent are walking through the flower market, the girl in the bright pink dress walks past them twice.
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Plot summary
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, John Williams, Jessie Royce Landis
John Robie, a reformed jewel thief, is suspected to have returned to his old tricks when a spate of jewel thiefts occurs along the French Riviera. Capricious, flirty Francie Stevens, an American tourist, dares to fall in love with him though she secretly suspects he is behind the thefts. After a few thwarted attempts to collar the jewel thief, named The Cat by the press, John enlists Francie's help to nail the culprit.
Celeste Harmer
John Robie: You're here in Europe to buy a husband.
Frances Stevens: The man I want doesn't have a price.
John Robie: That eliminates me.
Trivia: The road that Francie and John are driving on, trying to get away from the police, is the same road that Grace Kelly was driving on when she had a stroke and died in a car accident in 1982.
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