Hitch final:ShadowOfADoubt,ToCatchAThief

Hitch final:ShadowOfADoubt,ToCatchAThief

2. Hitchcock likes to blur the ideas of love and obsession, and of safety and danger into relation,

or association. In To Catch a Thief,   Danielle a bit illicitly tells Robie "I do one favor per day".

She's like a siren sex symbol, meeting Robie for the first time in the potentially romantic

restaurant wine cellar, and wearing a bright red dress, lifting it openly to divert the overpassing

police in the plane. The latter example also implies relation with her as dangerous by the fact

alone that Robie seeks to evade the police. Danielle of course is also the major villain, and she and

Robie flirt with one another. But she might not want to use Robie just for information and as a

dupe because she catfights with Francie when they first meet in competition for the attention of

Robie. Francie herself resides in Monte Carlo searching for an able husband after many milksop

failures, as her mother would put it. She's tired of the search but also desperate for a prospective

man of some substance, and Robie fits her tastes and requisites. So she easily begins to obsess

over him. Though she assumes an icy composure, she swiftly advances on Robie with a kiss the

first time they meet.   And their meeting place is in a gambling house, indicative of risk and chance

in their association. In completing the certainty in her attraction for Robie, she takes him on a wild

car chase with the observing police over the steep cliff roads as Robie nervously grabs his knees.

Picnicking right after, Francie discloses her discovery of Robie’s true identity, dissolving his

Burns alias, (a reference to their passion), as they eat chicken legs and breasts. Francie mixes love,

obsession and danger when Robie grabs her in frustration about his identity: "Strong grip. The

kind a burglar needs." She also taunts his former obsession with burglarizing by offering herself

with a glistening diamond necklace on. "Are you nervous to be in a room with thousands of...