To Catch A Thief (1955)

All the ingredients of a ripping Hitchcock comedy thriller are here - the exotic French Riviera setting beautifully photographed in VistaVision; a book's ripping plot with Cary Grant starring as "The Cat", a retired jewel thief wrongly accused of a string of copycat robberies; Grace Kelly as the blonde who wavers between suspecting and loving the hero; experimental camerawork using colour filters; a cameo by the director; and yet reading the plot synopsis on Wikipedia is a more exciting thing to do than watching this, one of Hitchcock's most tedious movies, repetitive, low on suspense, and to the end unthrilling.

★★★☆☆

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North By Northwest (1959)

This Hitchcock masterpiece has Cary Grant as debonair ad man Roger Thornhill embroiled in a case of mistaken identity and an international intrigue that sees him framed for murder, famously chased by a crop-duster, dangled from Mount Rushmore, and head-over-heels in love with an icy Eva Marie Saint.

★★★★★

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Rear Window (1954)

Alfred Hitchcock's mystery suspense masterpiece has an incredibly elaborate purpose-built film-set of 31 apartments (eight of them fully furnished) and it stars James Stewart as a wheelchair-bound man who entertains himself by sitting at his apartment window observing his neighbours, one of whom may be a murderer!

★★★★★

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