It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series) motion picture "To Catch a Thief", directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb "Set a thief to catch a thief". (Or as is more widely used, "It takes a thief to catch a thief".) "It Takes a Thief," which was created by television writer Roland Kibbee, featured the adventures of cat burglar, pickpocket, and thief Alexander Mundy, who steals to finance his life as a polished playboy and sophisticate. He is in prison when the U.S. government's SIA (the fictional Secret Intelligence Agency) proposes a deal to Mundy: steal for the government in exchange
A Thief in the Night (film series) by family-friendly evangelism. A quarter century later, the authors of the broadly successful "Left Behind" series of books and films acknowledged their debt to "Thief". Indeed, even the title "Left Behind" echoes the refrain of Norman's theme song for "A Thief in the Night", "I Wish We'd All Been Ready," in which he sings, "There's no time to change your mind, the son has come and you've been left behind." A Thief in the Night (film series) A Thief in the Night is an evangelical Christian film series about the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ. It consists of