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Alfred Hitchcock‘s To Catch a Thief will celebrate its 70th anniversary with a limited edition SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Digital release on July 29 from Paramount.

The 1955 romantic suspense thriller is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision Hdr and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio.

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Hitchcock Historian Dr. Drew Casper Filmmaker Focus: Leonard Maltin on To Catch a Thief Behind the Gates: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly Theatrical Trailer

Hitchcock directs from a script by frequent collaborator John Michael Hayes, based on David Dodge‘s 1952 novel of the same name.

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly star with Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams.

Reformed jewel thief John Robie (Grant) is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Kelly), he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection will collect six of the Master of Suspense’s classics on 4K Ultra HD + Digital: Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds.

Releasing on November 26 via Universal, the six-disc set is limited to 5,150. It’s housed in premium book-style packaging featuring artwork by Tristan Eaton along with photos, bios, and trivia.

In 1954’s Rear Window, “A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.”

It’s written by John Michael Hayes (To Catch a Thief), based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder.” James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr star.

Rear Window special features:

Audio commentary by Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film author John Fawell Rear Window Ethics – 2000 documentary Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael...

Actress Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman") will co-star in a remake of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 romantic mystery “To Catch a Thief", based on the 1952 novel by David Dodge, following a reformed criminal who tries to save his reputation by catching an impostor:

"...aging, former 'cat burglar' 'Le Chat (The Cat) Robie' is suspected by the police in a string of burglaries on the 'French Riviera'. When they come to his hilltop villa to question him, he slips their grasp and heads to a restaurant owned by his friend 'Bertani'.

"The restaurant's staff are members of Robie's old gang, who have been paroled for their work in the 'French Resistance' during 'World War II'. But they are angry at Robie because they are all under suspicion as long as a new 'Cat' burglar is active. Robie realizes he can prove his innocence by catching the new Cat in the act.

Actress Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman") will co-star in a remake of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 romantic mystery “To Catch a Thief", based on the 1952 novel by David Dodge, following a reformed criminal who tries to save his reputation by catching an impostor;

"...aging, former 'cat burglar' 'Le Chat (The Cat) Robie' is suspected by the police in a string of burglaries on the 'French Riviera'. When they come to his hilltop villa to question him, he slips their grasp and heads to a restaurant owned by his friend 'Bertani'.

"The restaurant's staff are members of Robie's old gang, who have been paroled for their work in the 'French Resistance' during 'World War II'. But they are angry at Robie because they are all under suspicion as long as a new 'Cat' burglar is active. Robie realizes he can prove his innocence by catching the new Cat in the act.

"He...

Actress Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman") will co-star in a remake of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 'romantic mystery' "To Catch a Thief", based on the 1952 novel by David Dodge, following a retired jewel thief who tries to save his reputation by catching an impostor preying on the wealthy:

"...aging, former 'cat burglar' 'Le Chat (The Cat) Robie' is suspected by the police in a string of burglaries on the 'French Riviera'. When they come to his hilltop villa to question him, he slips their grasp and heads to a restaurant owned by his friend 'Bertani'. 

"The restaurant's staff are members of Robie's old gang, who have been paroled for their work in the 'French Resistance' during 'World War II'. But they are angry at Robie because they are all under suspicion as long as a new 'Cat' burglar is active. Robie realizes he can prove his innocence by catching the new Cat in the act.

Viacom is setting out “To Catch a Thief,” but this time on TV. A Spanish-language TV remake of the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie is in the works with Javier Olivares, creator of hit Spanish drama “El Ministerio del Tiempo” (“The Department of Time”) on board to adapt. Viacom will air it on its networks in Latin America and sell it internationally.

Production dates have not been set, but Viacom International Media Networks was confident enough in the project, “Atrapar a un Ladron” in Spanish, to present it to buyers at the La Screenings. The annual May shindig sees the distribution arms of the Hollywood studios present their new network shows to acquisitions execs, and it also a key market for Latin American buyers and sellers.

Hitchcock’s 1955 “To Catch a Thief” was based on the 1952 David Dodge novel. It starred Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Grant played a reformed burglar...

Neil Gaiman and Jim Thompson bonded by Scam Fiction?

It’s all a scam, isn’t it?

My alarm goes off in the morning and I eat some cereal some marketer scammed me into thinking tastes good and is good for me. I wash myself with products I’ve been scammed into thinking will make me more pleasant company. I buy cigarettes I’ve scammed myself into thinking won’t really shorten my life from a convenience store clerk who scams me into thinking I’m paying a fair price. I go to my day-job and scam my boss into thinking I’m working hard just as he scams me into thinking my paycheck is as much as I deserve. Then I come home and attempt to scam you fine people into thinking I know what I’m talking about when it comes to crime fiction.

But of course, you’re too smart for that.

This novel adaptation stood up well against Hitchcock's film version by inspiring its own visuals

There's always the same process when radio tackles something already well known in a film version. You have to peel back the visuals you're familiar with, and temporarily discard them, otherwise the radio telling, however fine, won't let you conjure your own.

This was an issue with the Saturday Play: To Catch a Thief (Radio 4), David Dodge's 1952 novel made into the Alfred Hitchcock film starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. How to compete with that? Jean Buchanan's dramatisation for radio went for bold moves and quick impact, such as opening with a dramatic moment up-close: we hear hammering at a door as protagonist and former jewel thief John Robie flees the police.

Noticeable, too, was a focus on slivers of picture-painting description for landscape and characters. I liked the detail on Mrs Stevens,...

Paramount Pictures ends its tour of the 1950s, for now anyway, with the Centennial Collection edition of Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. Considered a minor work for the director, it actually holds up exceptionally well through the years and the restored print for the DVD, out now, is marvelous. Being the only Hitchcock film that Paramount still has rights to, this is a welcome part of the celebration.

Hitchcock’s 1955 film, based on David Dodge’s 1952 novel, stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and was filmed in location in Europe. This was the first of his films shot in Paramount’s VistaVision, a process similar to Cinemascope and used to compete against television for audiences. Despite the arduous process to shoot, he went on to use it five times but the first proved challenging, not that you can tell in the finished product.

John Robie (Grant) is a...