Hitchcock Retrospective – To Catch a Thief Review

Hello and welcome to episode 220 of The Cinema

Geeks. I am one of your Cinema Geeks, Optimus

Solo, and joining me once again is... The Comic

Concierge. Hello, Dan. Hey, how's it going? It

is going. We took a little break on the last

episode and did some 2025 catch -up work. But

now with episode 220 in front of us, we are back

at the Alfred Hitchcock Filmography. So for those

of you that are still with us, yes, we're still

doing at least this film here today. We are into

1955. So 1954 was the likes of Dial M for Murder

and Rear Window. and then 1955 we get To Catch

a Thief, which is listed as an American romantic

thriller. So a romantic thriller where every

movie is a different play on a thriller or a

suspense, so we got the romance on this one.

So from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based

on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge,

and of course the film stars mainly Cary Grant

and Grace Kelly. Dan, can you just remind the

listeners what your experience of To Catch a

Thief was going into this? This was the first

time watch for me, so I have never seen this

before. And honestly, I didn't realize this was

a Hitchcock film. Like I've heard of it, but

like I didn't realize it was Hitchcock and we

got to get into maybe why in a bit. But yeah,

first time watch for me. How about yourself?

Yeah, also a first time watch for me. This was

definitely when we decided to extend the filmography

past the original 10 films we had. This was like

one of the ones I wanted to watch the most. solely

based on Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and what

we had seen them do in other Hitchcock films.

They both appear in multiple Hitchcock films.

So I was definitely high on wanting to watch

this one, but I had no idea what kind of movie

it was, what it was about, what the... I knew

it had a positive rating like on Rotten Tomatoes

and other consensus like... Critic sites and

things of that nature, but I really had no knowledge.

So a completely blind watch for me as well So

this one came out in august of 1955. It's 106

minute runtime Budget was two and a half million.

It's made Like quadruple that I want to say it

was pretty successful right out of the gate If

you look at the critics, they're a little bit

mixed You can find some good some bad but overall

like when you go on like a metacritic rotten

tomatoes that type of thing It is going to have

a very favorable Reception. I think it's got

like a 92 % on Rotten Tomatoes. So on this first

watch Dan What was your first reaction on to

catch a thief? Actually gonna like circle back

to remember we watched North by the Northwest

and I mentioned I believe we mentioned in that

like how Which was another film, of course starring

out of Cary Grant how that like in a way felt

very much like a James Bond movie in its presentation

just and how was executed Honestly, I felt like

even more with this. Like, if you squint, this

is very much like a James Bond plot in a lot

of ways. You have stunning locales that are a

huge part of the story. You have your charming

lead who has this shady past and you have a lot

of espionage going on, disguises. You have a

lot of infantiles who play a huge role that,

you know, a lot of people that kind of... Changing

allegiances throughout like you could easily

make this into a James Bond movie. There's car

chases I don't think we've gotten like a car

chase before this elaborate but and Also, there

is a lot of comedy in this as well, which you

depending upon what James Bond you're watching

Tend to see I'm not saying this was like trying

to be a James Bond movie. It just I just had

that feeling watching it You know, it's coming

out in what? 1955 before seven years Well before

James Bond was even a thing. Yeah, so but I definitely

enjoyed this I would say It does feel a little

less ambitious than some of Hitchcock's previous

films But it does seem like he's just having

more fun with this one. It's just Seems more

like you know you met me mentioned romance and

things like that and there are some thrills but

i don't you know we don't have necessarily have.

The center of this isn't necessarily a murder

it's stealing it's a thief so by by that you

know it's not that murder doesn't happen but

it doesn't feel as intense you mentioned how

all of these seven thrillers i'd say the thrills

on this are purposely not as like. In your face

and i think those are maybe the weakest elements

but as always it is carrie grant and grace kelly

showing why they're movie stars there are directors

who believe in subtext and then there's alfred

hitchcock who's like i'm gonna have a scene with

carrie grant and grace kelly and literal fireworks

in between them and it's gonna work because i'm

alfred hitchcock and they're carrie grant and

grace kelly and he's right So I do think this

is a movie that with lesser stars and probably

a lesser director, not nearly as successful.

But I enjoyed it. It was like I said, I think

this is probably one of the more entertaining

films. I think this is a good like lead into

Hitchcock. If you're like, you know, don't start

with Vertigo. Start with To Catch a Thief, because

I think it's easy. It's an easy buy in. So how

about yourself? I think you brought up a ton

of great points that I'm gonna probably echo

a lot of the same thoughts. I think you're right.

I think this one works because of a few things.

Number one, because Hitchcock's behind the camera.

Number two, because Cary Grant and Grace Kelly

are leading the march, I guess, when it comes

to an acting standpoint. And then you have from

an accolade standpoint, you have a Academy Award

win for best cinematography for the film. You

have nominations for best art direction and best

costume design. So like it has all of those things

going for it. So I don't know how much the story

mattered. You know what I mean? And I'm not saying

there's anything wrong with the story, but I'm

just saying like what you're saying is 100 %

correct. Like if you take Hitchcock out, you

take Cary Grant and Grace Kelly out, you take

the combination of obviously Hitchcock leading

Some of the camera work and cinematography and

stuff like that But but obviously people that

were executing on a high level as well like you

take all of that out And I don't think this would

work probably I mean that seems weird to like

if you take half of the movie out It's probably

not gonna work But I think it just touches on

the point that you were trying to get to and

that you said as far as like the the thrills

is not what is going to lead this film and I

was surprised that there was a lot of contemporary

reviews that were positive as positive as they

were because I would have thought there would

have been more, especially coming off of the

likes of Dial M for Murder and Rear Window as

his last two films, that there would have been

some harsher critiques on the lack of suspense

and thrill that this one could be accused of.

This one is more of just, like you said, it's

a good time. I feel like Alfred Hitchcock had

established himself. He's had some success. He

nails down the one of the best actors and best

actresses of the day goes to the French Riviera

and just has a vacation and films a film while

he's there. Like, I don't know. It seems like

it's just a good time. Like I don't know how

you can watch this film and not at least get

some enjoyment from it. If you're going in, I

think the only way this gets negative reviews

is it's kind of like that whole idea that we've

talked about. number of different times when

we've been reviewing more modern movies and it

comes a lot comes up a lot in movie critiquing

is If the movie is not what you wanted it to

be Versus you going in and just watching the

movie for what it is. So I think if people were

going in Wanting a certain type of movie. They

may have been disappointed based on what Hitchcock

had given previously but if you went in with

a no expectation and I'm just gonna like watch

this movie and see what it is and let it determine

what it is for me versus me going in with that

expectation, then I think it would work for most

people. And I do think I definitely picked up

on all of the James Bond -esque things. Like

there's even a moment where he says his name

and he says, uh, Robie, John Robie. Like if that

wasn't somehow lifted from here or if somebody

wasn't paying attention and made this, you know,

the, the thing with James Bond, I don't know,

unless that was in the Bond, like I don't know

when was Bond. I know the movie exists. The books

started first published in 1953, so this was

I don't know if that existed in the books, like

how he said his name or if that was a movie thing.

Like I'm not as like well schooled on the James

Bond world. Yeah, I did find interesting, though,

when looking through some of the notes and trivia

and like research for this film. I don't know

if you had this in your notes as well, but they

actually went to Cary Grant first. According

to one note I read that the people behind Doctor

No in 1962, the first Bond film, actually Cary

Grant was their first choice. Based on some of

the stuff probably that they see in this and

in North by Northwest and things of that nature.

And I saw like a couple different sources that

say like he was offered a role or a talk to about

the Bond role and turned it down because he did

not want to play a recurring character. He didn't

want to be linked to something that was gonna

be multiple movies, and they were definitely

looking for somebody that was going to be the

character for not just one film. So I don't know

how much truth that is or not. I didn't like

substantiate it and cite my sources and things

of that nature, but I read a couple notes that

they did approach him first, which makes sense.

Like he's doing all the things. Although at that

time he would have been, I think he's 50? Is

he 50 in this film? So he would have been 57

by the time dr. No comes out. I Don't know but

he's playing like a 30 year old in this film.

So I don't maybe the age doesn't matter Hey,

I mean for 50 at 50 in 1950s the guys man. He's

like putting Tom Tom Cruise's shame on top of

roofs and everything like that's yeah Yeah, so

it makes sense that we didn't we didn't see him

do more stunts probably but he was on top of

the roof but I am like as much as I am high on

Cary Grant like Grace Kelly is just on another

level. Like she is flipping amazing. Like I knew

nothing about Grace Kelly moving or going into

this retrospective outside of that. It's a name

that you know of classic Hollywood, right? Like

there's certain names that just come. I think

of like the Madonna song from the 80s or 90s

where they talk about Ginger Rogers and Grace

Kelly and Fred Astaire and like they name a bunch

of them in Vogue maybe or something like that.

So like I know her name. I know what it's associated

with You know, it's kind of like when you hear

a Hepburn or you know when you hear Clark Gable

or something like that, like you know that they're

famous But you don't know why and like this filmography

has made it no doubt why like there's no no doubt

why she was the star that she was the crazy part

is you have these two playing like the the love

angle in this film the the romantic leads and

seemingly like The like the world is theirs,

right? Like it seems like they're at They could

do anything they want and then both of them are

no longer doing films within What less than 10

years less than 12 years? They're both out of

Hollywood Yeah It's crazy to me It's also kind

of I mean, I know not that Hollywood is great

then now but there is obviously a lot of like

A lot of issues back then, but I think also Cary

Grant got out for family reasons, too. But I

can imagine. Yeah, you know, for sure. He he

definitely wanted to. I think was it his son

or daughter? I can't remember now. It's been

a while since I watched the documentary, but

he had at least one young child that he wanted

to be there for, among other things. I guess

he had actually in one of my other notes, I read

that we'll get into the movie, I promise a little

bit more. But in one of my other notes, I read

that he had actually said he had retired before

this film. Didn't see they didn't mention that

in the documentary I watched but there was one

retired before this film and that he was convinced

to like come back and then he did movies for

like another You know, however long it was ten

years or whatever before he retired retired I'm

not a hundred percent sure on that and then on

the grace Kelly thing it's interesting that we're

talking about it and during this movie because

the the Well, yeah, and then she eventually I

know this is like not anything to do with the

movie and it's not a great like positive story,

but she eventually is in a car accident, which

is what leads to her passing. And there's a her

I don't know if it's a her biographer or it's

a family member. I think it's a family member

that says it wasn't. But there was a lot of actual

like rumors that the street that she gets in

the car accident on and goes over the cliff on

is. one of the streets that the car chase is

like filmed in in this film. I don't think it

I don't think it's the actual street that we

see, but I don't know how far removed it is.

Like it's in this general area, I believe, which

is kind of another spooky like connection to

this this film. But getting back into the actual

like nuts and bolts of to catch a thief. What

did you feel about like what elements worked

best for you? Because we talked a little bit

about that. We have the romance. We talked a

little bit about the thriller. You mentioned

comedy. Like, does one stand out more than the

other, or what do you feel like carried the film

overall? Do you think the locale was a huge part

of it? Like, they really milked this location

as much as they can. Like, we got a lot of, I

don't know, helicopter or crane shots, especially

with... The car chase is watching these cars

go up and you know these villas and things like

that I think they and just on the beaches. It

was very much as as cliché and as horrible It

sounds like making this location into a character.

It was a huge part of I think the appeal of this

and then I think that's part of what makes it

unique and then of course like I do think it

is like you mentioned Chris Kelly and Carrie

Grant and I think like you might looking at Chris

kelly what's great about her is like how much

control she has of a scene like she's always

i think one step ahead of where you think she

is you characterize and even like her performance

because you know she's he's not one to be fooled

she's figured things out and i think she portrays

that relatively well And, um, and I do like that

about her character. So that and their chemistry

works well. And I do think the comedy, like there

was some pretty good comedic bits, like, especially

with like some of the chases where, you know,

you have that like car crash after, I believe

it was a chicken in the road, if memory serves

me where the, like, you know, solving that age

old question. And I think just like that consistent

talent, it just kind of kept it light. And I

do think where it falls a little bit, like my,

what I felt was like the weakest part, it was

like the last. Third where it starts to get more

serious we start to like try to figure out this

mystery. And it feels like we kind of know where

it's going when it takes just a thought the pacing

kind of comes to a halt as it tries to like come

up with this elaborate scheme like multiple elaborate

screen schemes to find out who's the thief really

is and I feel like we all kind of know who it

is because it's like the only other character

that we've seen in the movie so it's like I don't

know like. And just in and that's where it got

a bit more serious and like it didn't have and

I think With this movie and thinking about some

of the films we've gone over I would say if there's

one thing Hitchcock struggles with the most and

it's the hardest thing for a lot of you know

Storytellers no matter what medium is endings

because I do think that the endings for a lot

of his movies some are great and some like just

kind of Peter out or just feel like they're Go

too big for their own good like thinking of the

She's not down for murder actually had a really

good ending Trying to think of the movie with

like the we watched so many they all kind of

combined with the merry -go -round Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah Strangers on Train. Yeah. Yeah. So

like other like I just felt like looking back

on this and this was another one where it's just

the ending was a little I got lost in its own

design and its own machinations where it's like

it got away from what made the movie work so

I think that's just to me as you answer asked

like what was Strongest element was that and

when it you know went in different direction

the movie suffered great a great deal But I still

ended up rather relatively enjoying it throughout

I thought the pacing for me also was a thing

that I don't think it was bad necessarily I just

think they were at different paces at different

times like it seemed like some sections of the

film were moving at a relatively fast clip and

then some like really slowed down and it was

a little bit back and forth with that. It didn't

really bother me necessarily but I just did notice

like that seemed like it didn't flow quite as

well as some of the other films that I think

we've watched. And I know that you know maybe

we'd say that the tension from the plot standpoint

wasn't as high as other films when it comes to

the actual like who's bad, who's good, who did

it type stuff. But I think the tension from a

sexual standpoint or from a relationship standpoint

is way better than what we've gotten in some

films. I think early on Hitchcock doesn't always

necessarily nail the love story angles or parts

of his film. It's a little hit or miss, but I

think this one is pretty well -nailed. I just

think of a couple different sequences. One, that

car sequence that you're talking about because

He literally, and it goes back to what you said,

like she's always in control. Like she's the

opposite of a damsel in distress, right? Like

she is before any type of movement of like a

strong female in control, like Grace Kelly was

doing it right here. And like when they're in

that scene, in that car chase, he says something

about like, can't we speed up or can't we, can't

this thing go faster? Whatever his line is. and

she scares the crap out of him for how she's

driving along the cliffs of this terrain. So

that was one thing. You had the other sequence

with the probably one of the best sequences in

the film. If you ask me, is the necklace where

she's almost enticing him to hold it to see if

it's going to have some type of effect on him.

And then there's just a lot of sexual tension

in that whole sequence. which I think is well

done. We also get another weird sequence of Cary

Grant eating chicken. I don't know if that was

a thing, because we see that in... Which one

is it? Suspicion? Where's the one where they're

eating chicken? Gosh, you're right. They all

start to to blend together now It's one of the

earlier ones that we watched like right around

dial M for murder and my mind's just blanking

right now But is the other movie that Cary Grant's

in obviously, I'm notorious notorious He's eating

chicken in the like almost that balcony of that

hotel room or whatever And now she's offering

him a leg or a breast or whatever. She says a

thigh or breast Obviously some innuendo there.

So I think the only thing that some people would

have been questioning was kind of like what you

said, you know, the you know, the bad person

can only be three characters, right? Because

we've only seen three characters outside of some

little either Cary Grant's line the whole time

and he's the still the robber, which I think

most of us would have just credited as that's

not going to be the sequence. So it literally

has to be one of the females like it's either

Grace Kelly's character who's just been playing

him the whole time or it's the the younger girl

that he has the Sequence in the pool or in the

lake or whatever and then obviously at the restaurant

at center that he has a history with So were

you for sure that it was the other girl the whole

time because I was halfway thinking that it could

have been Grace Kelly At first at first I thought

I may be but once she revealed that she knew

who he was. I'm like, okay Well, then there goes

that because I thought like she was trying to

frame him There were some there were some moments

where I was thinking that but I feel When she

lets that go, then I'm like, okay, she clearly

she's just she knows who he is. And I don't know.

I guess I wasn't like always convinced, but I

guess maybe it was just unfair because I'm not

going to make Reese Kelly into the bad guy. So

maybe just that that element of it was why I

never maybe if I don't know if I ever thought

it was, but I thought maybe I wanted it to be.

Like just as like a weird twist, like this would

be kind of fun if she's the actual robber. But

the other character clearly has more of the the

villain. Whatever you want. Yeah, tones are like.

And she had to know how she had to know his like

his M .O., his background and everything like

that. So unless it was. Because like they were

copying his style, so that's like right. I thought

it was him. Thought that's one thing the film

may have been able to do a little bit better

job especially like in the middle or like the

second Act or whatever you want to call it. I

thought there could have been a little bit more

because this I think the second act focuses mostly

on just Grace Kelly and Cary Grant and like their

development of their relationship and I thought

if they had sprinkled in a few more Not clues,

but like breadcrumbs to like the way that she

was mimicking him Because I I know they say some

of it but like I would have been nice to see

a little bit of that like to make it more of

a like solving of the mystery I guess because

we kind of touch on it at the beginning then

we have the relationship with Grace Kelly and

Cary Grant and then we just jump to the end where

we figure out everything you know on the roof

etc so I thought there could have been some more

breadcrumbs throughout to connect that a little

bit but other than that Like I don't really have

too many major complaints. Like I don't think

this is like top tier Hitchcock necessarily.

It's not going to make like the. Probably like

my top. I don't know. I haven't done the totally,

but it wouldn't be in my top four or five films,

but I don't really have too many negative things

to say about it. What about you? Other thoughts

that you haven't been able to share? Yeah, like

I I agree. Wouldn't be. Near the bottom, it's.

I guess I don't have a lot of negative things

to say it was more so I don't think this was

trying to do as much as the other ones it's like

it does feel like it's like you know, this one's

just gonna be a good old time like it just it

does feel like they Had a certain movie they

were going for and it's like we don't necessarily

have to we're not making Psycho 2 here come later

But I think it She is what it sets out for it

like i said except for that little you know the

ending piece of it didn't i did like i mentioned

earlier but i did love the shot of the fireworks

going off. The background and having a conversation

like that was that you know it was maybe a little

heavy handed but at the same time it's the fifties

you can have to play around with. The censorship

that existed and i thought it was really good

and there were actually some scenes like we didn't

mention it but the one scene where drops the.

the chip down the Lillie's dress. I'm like, wow.

I'm surprised they got away with that. But again,

it was just him being slick again, because I'm

pretty sure that's how he got some money or what

have you. So yeah, like I said, it was an enjoyable

watch. And it's not going to same as probably

it's not it's got its best film But I don't think

he was trying to make his best film here. I think

he realized what he had he just wanted to make

a vehicle for Kelly and Cary Grant to kind of

do their thing and it was doing it while on the

studying location, although like I mean no one

was driving at times. I'm like has she ever driven

a car before because The way she's she would

have been you know, her car is gonna be like

swirling all over the place But I also get like

that was kind of like the expectations back then

and the rear projection or whatever, you know

Got a lot of those little things go but yeah,

I did like the dynamic of that sequence too when

they're all in the water where he's Thinks that

she's left the beach or whatever and then turns

around and she's in the water and they kind of

have that The three characters kind of back and

forth between it. I thought that was well done

because you you know what position he's in and

Yeah, you kind of like feel form and are like,

well, how's this fool gonna like navigate these

waters? Pun intended I guess But that was a great

scene too. I thought and yeah, I think what you

said makes sense like Regardless of how you feel

about like where it ranks or where it doesn't

rank I think this film serves two purposes a

hundred percent like I think this is a great

entry point into Hitchcock like you said and

I think this if you want to know why Grace Kelly

was a movie star You just need to watch this

like yeah, this is a great showcase for her I

haven't seen all of her movies so I'm not saying

it's like her number one film, but I think it

it Shows a lot of why she was who she was. I

mean, obviously she's great in The other films

that we've seen of her so far in the Hitchcock

retrospective But I think this would be like

if somebody was wondering like what was the big

deal about Grace Kelly? I would I would probably

point them to this film Yeah, you know I think

I think we haven't talked about and they hint

at a lot with Cary Grant's character John Robbie

like his his background and like how he was a

soldier and is that that was kind of through

line too because You see all these people who

have you know who he? Comes into this hotel and

they all look at him like, you know, they're

they want to kill him basically and just finding

out that like he was a soldier and I guess they

were in prison and got out and like was able

to fight it just it's just interesting considering

like World War two is just ten years earlier

than that's eleven depending of like, you know

and just how that's still Obviously it's gonna

be something that takes place and I don't we

haven't had a we of course did lifeboat but Just

considering seeing that connection a little bit

I thought was a nice little touch Just also gave

you some insight on on that character as well

as like where he's coming from so the other interesting

thing about that is they take it a step further

and they talk about how he spent time like I

don't know if they say circus necessarily or

I Don't know if they say the word circus or trapeze

artist or something of that nature, but they

talk about how he was like involved in that world

at some point, which is interesting because that's

literally what Cary Grant did in his own life.

So I don't know if that's how it was written

or if they wrote that specifically because of

Cary Grant's history, but I thought that was

kind of an interesting thing too because they,

like I said, I'd watched the Cary Grant documentary

a couple, I don't know, maybe about a month ago

now after one of the films we covered. And then

I saw that and they made that line. I was like,

well, that's literally what Cary Grant did. So

I thought that was a kind of a nice little twist.

intentionally did it, which I assume they would.

It seems like something strange to just come

up with if it didn't, I guess. But I thought

that worked for me, too. So I'm happy with this

film. Like you said, I don't think there's anything

to be upset about with this film. I think it's

just a good, entertaining, enjoying watch of

what film was like and could be when you have

two great movie stars in a great location back

in the 1950s. Yeah, the last piece I had to was

and I think it was sort of mentioning because

it was nominated for an Oscar was the costume

design, especially like, which was normal. But

for the most part, within the last sequence,

we get these elaborate costumes and things like

that. And at one point, because you have this

one character that is dancing with Grace Kelly,

he makes you think it's You know who she stands

him with and at first I thought it was blackface

I got a little concerned because like he's hard

to tell i'm like, oh thank god It's just a mask

because at first i'm like, oh no, this is this

that's the way it's heard really quick Yeah,

but but luckily that was not the case but because

it reminded almost kind of looked like the way

a Dragon Ball Z that way back when that they

actually had like at it because and how it was

depicted I'm like, I think that I remember people

talking about that. But luckily that was the

case besides that the costumes were kind of crazy

and elaborate like these Random fashion show

that was taking place. Well, they did a great

job of highlighting some of the like I know it's

about jewelry and All that kind of stuff, but

some of the pieces that were being worn At some

of these things and they just like show like

one after the other and they're very like calm

plex and ornate and things like that but I think

they did a good job of like really showing like

the appeal of them to somebody that maybe has

a history of being a robber or uh is it robber

or is it burglar I think it's burglary in this

situation um that there is a difference and I

think that's what he's doing um but so I thought

that was interesting too yeah how they how they

kind of like highlighted all those things and

it was also kind of neat that They they could

have very easily made this all about like some

type of MacGuffin jewels that like I know Her

mom gets her jewel stolen and things like that

But they don't go so far to like have like the

like you would see you know I feel like you would

automatically see that today like it would be

like the whatever the I'm gonna I can't make

up a name, but like some famous Necklace of some

queen or something like that like it would be

like this big MacGuffin in like a current -day

film and I feel like they did a nice job of kind

of like Making that more of a subtle part of

the story versus I mean we do get scenes in the

beginning where like women are screaming because

their jewels are stolen But it makes it more

general versus like a specific like oh, we got

it. We got to steal this one Prize diamond or

something like that. I like that. They kind of

stayed away from that Yeah, like sense I was

It was just random jewelry, and I kept it simple,

and I think even when I didn't need to. And then

last, I keep saying last thing, but then we did

get a really good Hitchcock cameo in this, probably

the one they called attention to the most at

this point, because he's on the bus, and it really,

almost like a wink to the camera. And I think

that just sets the tone of the movie kind of

right away. It's like, oh, OK, this is going

to be that time. and of course, they're supposed

to be I guess you could make a connection there

because they they turn one way and there's a

Birdcage and then the next way it's Hitchcock.

And of course he goes on to make the movie birds

I don't know maybe a stretch, but I know some

people point that out as well. I Mean like Pittsburgh

Pixar did that forever right where they would

hint that movies coming up. So maybe right you

never know So yeah, I think we're both pretty

positive on to catch a thief and I believe Unless

we decide to call another audible. Is this gonna

be the last one or what? Do you think I think

so? I think we've we've covered it because As

we're hinting at do we want to wait to announce

what our next one's gonna be or do we think?

We can we can let them know you you can go ahead

So I it makes sense to kind of pivot. We're kind

of gonna stick in the same area We've been talking

about how much we've been enjoying Cary Grant

But I thought, well, let's just keep that going.

And we're going to do a Cary Grant marathon or,

you know, the first time we've ever did an actor

before we've done directors. I guess let's count

Kevin Smith, who was an actor in his movie sometime.

But putting together what movies we're going

to be seeing. Obviously, we saw some of his big

ones already, but there's still plenty to surround

the guy had quite the career. So I'll be interested

to see. There's a lot of his big films I've never

seen there. You know, there's I think even. Is

there another Hitchcock one we haven't gotten

to? No, we've got all the Hitchcock ones, but

we've got all the non -Hitchcock ones to watch,

for sure. I was thinking a charade, which is

not a Hitchcock film, but it looks like one on

the poster. Yeah, so we're gonna cover, while

we're picking out which Cary Grant films we're

gonna cover, we will give you one episode where

we kind of summarize everything Hitchcock. So

we'll kind of do our version of like a Hitchcock

retrospective, I guess, awards show where we

highlight, you know, our favorite actors supporting

roles maybe beginnings endings like most suspenseful

moments will come up with some categories hopefully

some fun categories to to have a kind of a Conversation

about Hitchcock as a whole now that we've covered

15 of his films If you want more Hitchcock coverage,

there is a podcast. I've been starting to listen

to I think it's called film school I should look

up the actual name. It's a it's two guys that

are involved in The actual world of like filmmaking.

I know at least one of them if not both of them

have credits on IMDB It's just called film school

and it's Ira and Josh are the two posts and they

have covered Like all 50 whatever movies of Hitchcock

So yeah, they're actually switching now to Miyazaki.

So we beat them on that one. But yeah, they cover

like, however many it is, 51, 55 Hitchcock films,

every single one of them in chronological order.

So if you want more Hitchcock, it's a different

structure completely than what we do it. So you

may like it more or less, who knows, but you

can always check those guys out. But we're going

to put a bow on it with our award show, and then

we'll transition into Cary Grant, which we're

both looking forward to. Um, so dan, uh, I guess

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