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 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