To Catch a Thief "The New Yorker" dismissed the film as "an Alfred Hitchcock picture that makes you wonder what has happened to the man ... As the heiress, Grace Kelly is very pretty. She does not, presumably, try to act." "The Monthly Film Bulletin" wrote, "Even a comedy thriller needs considerably more in the way of plain excitement and tension than "To Catch a Thief" provides, and Hitchcock's celebrated habit of playing tricks with the audience ... seem a poor substitute for the real thing." "The Guardian" called the film "a thorough disappointment," writing that Hitchcock had "failed so completely that one can
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman A Trap to Catch a Cracksman "A Trap to Catch a Cracksman" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was published in July 1905 by "Pall Mall Magazine" in London. The story was also included as the seventh story in the collection "A Thief in the Night", published by Chatto & Windus in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1905. Very early morning, Bunny receives a vague and distressing telephone call from Raffles, telling Bunny that he has