<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $4.5 million (US rentals original release) $8.75 million </Td> </Tr> <P> To Catch a Thief is a 1955 romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge . The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar who has to save his reformed reputation by catching a new "cat" preying on the wealthy tourists of the French Riviera. Grace Kelly stars opposite him as his romantic interest in her final film with Hitchcock . </P> <P> The modus operandi of a string of jewel robberies in the French Riviera causes the police to believe that the infamous jewel thief or "cat burglar" John Robie (Cary Grant), nicknamed "The Cat", has left his retirement of growing grapes and flowers . He gives the police the slip at his hilltop villa . </P> <P> Robie visits a restaurant . The staff are his old gang from French Resistance days, paroled based on patriotic war work as long as they keep clean . Bertani, Foussard, and the others blame Robie because they are currently all under suspicion while the new Cat is active . Still, when the police arrive at Bertani's restaurant, Foussard's teenage daughter Danielle (Brigitte Auber), who has a crush on Robie, spirits him to safety . </P>

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