So many of you have heard critics and journalists say that George Clooney has “that” Cary Grant thing, and if you have been wondering about “that” thing, this movie will come with the answer.
John "the cat" Robie (Cary Grant) was notorious jewels thief, from the old school of "cat burglaras" a former trapezist who had converted to a more lucrative form of jumping around, he is now a retired gentelman of leisure in the south of France and attends to his vineyards.
but "The Cat" is back, a lot of rich tourists are robbed of their jewels diamonds or pearls, and Robey is the usual suspect, and as if it was not enough, a lot of his former resistance buddies during WW2 who work now at a touristic restaurant and who are on a fragile parole, are mad at him because of the suspicion around him, is jeopardyzing their new "respectable citizen" status.
The boss of the restaurant Mr Bertani introduces Robie to an important insurances man Mr Hughson, in the hope of unveiling the identity of the true cat, Mr Hughson introduces him to a new rich oil billionaire widow Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis), and her good mannered daughter Francie (Grace Kelly).
As the plot advances, Robie and Francie get more and more into each other, thus forming a love triangle with Robie's old flame, a gorgeous french girl, daughter of the wine waiter at mr Bertani's restaurant, this triangle's outcome leading into some dire consequences and revelations.
Now Picture this young fellas of the dot come generation, you have Mr Cary Grant in all his glory, Ms Grace Kelly in all her Charms, and of course the French Cote d'Azur in all it's glamour before it lost it thanx to zillions of Russian Businessmen, Gulf oil princes, Paparazzis, Japanese industralists, and shall i go on, even hip hop moguls.
This movie is a true witness to the post WW2 optimism, when wealthy but unexperienced America was meeting the magnetic glamour of France, and europe in General, Mr Hitchcock in all his genuis captures this energy with all the details and the beauty of technicolor, and you can see the old Nice with it's ever glamourous Carlton Hotel.
The "grace" of this movie is like an old french wine, surprising, uplifting, classy, and charming, and you can see why they say that George Clooney is the heir of that elegance, and that style, i mean, Clooney even has a villa in lake Como Italy, so similar to the one Cary Grant owns in the movie, and i really wish he would do a remake of that movie (wait !, wasn't it their intention with that movie "Oceans 12", sure it tanked like an old yacht in the french reviera)
Anyways that's a movie is one you can't afford to miss, especially that it was Grace Kelly's swan song before she became Princess Grace of Monaco just a few miles away, boy she surely looked royal in that golden dress.
Fort the rest, you can catch the Vanity Fair photoshoot , with Clooney and Gema Ward posing as Grant and Kelly, and frankly, as classy as they were, it was an impossible task to match the glamourous Nice couple of 55.
John "the cat" Robie (Cary Grant) was notorious jewels thief, from the old school of "cat burglaras" a former trapezist who had converted to a more lucrative form of jumping around, he is now a retired gentelman of leisure in the south of France and attends to his vineyards.
but "The Cat" is back, a lot of rich tourists are robbed of their jewels diamonds or pearls, and Robey is the usual suspect, and as if it was not enough, a lot of his former resistance buddies during WW2 who work now at a touristic restaurant and who are on a fragile parole, are mad at him because of the suspicion around him, is jeopardyzing their new "respectable citizen" status.
The boss of the restaurant Mr Bertani introduces Robie to an important insurances man Mr Hughson, in the hope of unveiling the identity of the true cat, Mr Hughson introduces him to a new rich oil billionaire widow Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis), and her good mannered daughter Francie (Grace Kelly).
As the plot advances, Robie and Francie get more and more into each other, thus forming a love triangle with Robie's old flame, a gorgeous french girl, daughter of the wine waiter at mr Bertani's restaurant, this triangle's outcome leading into some dire consequences and revelations.
Now Picture this young fellas of the dot come generation, you have Mr Cary Grant in all his glory, Ms Grace Kelly in all her Charms, and of course the French Cote d'Azur in all it's glamour before it lost it thanx to zillions of Russian Businessmen, Gulf oil princes, Paparazzis, Japanese industralists, and shall i go on, even hip hop moguls.
This movie is a true witness to the post WW2 optimism, when wealthy but unexperienced America was meeting the magnetic glamour of France, and europe in General, Mr Hitchcock in all his genuis captures this energy with all the details and the beauty of technicolor, and you can see the old Nice with it's ever glamourous Carlton Hotel.
The "grace" of this movie is like an old french wine, surprising, uplifting, classy, and charming, and you can see why they say that George Clooney is the heir of that elegance, and that style, i mean, Clooney even has a villa in lake Como Italy, so similar to the one Cary Grant owns in the movie, and i really wish he would do a remake of that movie (wait !, wasn't it their intention with that movie "Oceans 12", sure it tanked like an old yacht in the french reviera)
Anyways that's a movie is one you can't afford to miss, especially that it was Grace Kelly's swan song before she became Princess Grace of Monaco just a few miles away, boy she surely looked royal in that golden dress.
Fort the rest, you can catch the Vanity Fair photoshoot , with Clooney and Gema Ward posing as Grant and Kelly, and frankly, as classy as they were, it was an impossible task to match the glamourous Nice couple of 55.
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