With more twists than a Chubby Checker Dance-A-Thon, the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller keeps you guessing the entire time. When watching a movie such as North By Northwest or To Catch A Thief, it is so tough to know who you should trust, that you cannot help but trust every character, or not trust any character. Once you think that you have figured out the plot and have a good grasp on the film, Hitchcock throws you a nasty curveball that will get your head spinning. When I first viewed North By Northwest, which is part of my personal library, I was not sure if I could trust Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill. As the movie progressed, Hitchcock revealed clues and counter-clues in a slow steady trickle. My view of Thornhill changed numerous times, but not nearly as many as it did with the charac
Another notable Grant/Hitchcock collaboration was To Catch A Thief. In this suspense thriller, Grant teams up with Grace Kelly as a reformed cat burglar out to prove himself innocent of a recent burglary spree on the Riviera. In To Catch A Thief, Hitchcock uses the past of John Robie, played by Grant, to distort your future view of him and find him distrustful. Robie does all that he can to get Ms. Stevens (Kelly) to believe him, but is caught seemingly red-handed. As the plot thickened, I was never quite sure who to believe. Traditional thinking would suggest that you trust the main character, but Hitchcock has never been a traditional filmmaker, one of the qualities that make him quite possibly the greatest filmmaker of all time.
ter of Eve Kendall, played by the lovely Eva Marie-Saint. Much
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