Hitchcock and Cary Grant at the top of their game.

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2004)

One of those great flicks you don't mind watching over again every year or so. Top drawer suspense, all wrapped up in sophistication and some of the best man/woman chemistry ever captured on film. Definitely the highlight of Eve Marie-Saint's career. (I'm betting she'd agree.) Cary Grant was never better. And Alfred Hitchcock, some of whose work made me wonder why he was so celebrated, truly got it right in this movie. Some of the more memorable scenes: Cary Grant creeping along a ledge, high above street level, and slipping through an open window into a sleeping woman's hotel room. "Stop!" she cries out when she sees someone coming through the window. Then, as Grant hurries through the room toward the door, glancing at her and apologizing, she more entreats than commands, "Stop!" The way the movie ends is as good as it gets, but I won't spill the beans here. Watch this movie when it comes along, if you haven't already done so at least once.