TO CATCH A THIEF

(1955)

PG ● 1.05PM, BBC2 ★★★★ Alfred Hitchcock directs Cary Grant and a luminous Grace Kelly in this classy romantic thriller. Grant is burglar John ‘The Cat’ Robie, whose retirement in the south of France is rudely interrupted. Hitchcock’s superb North By Northwest, also starring Grant, follows at 2.50pm.