Paramount Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller To Catch a Thief (1955), starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Winner of Oscar Award for Best Cinematography (Robert Burks, North By Northwest, The Birds), To Catch A Thief will be available for purchase on March 6th.

Special Features:

Commentary by Dr. Drew Casper, Hitchcock Film Historian
A Night with the Hitchcocks
Unacceptable Under the Code: Film Censorship in America
Writing and Casting To Catch A Thief
The Making of To Catch A Thief
Behind the Gates: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
Alfred Hitchcock and To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
If You Love To Catch A Thief, You'll Love this Interactive Travelogue
Theatrical Trailer
Galleries:
- Movie
- Publicity
- Visitors to the Set
- Production

• Commentary with critic Richard Schickel
• Isolated music and effects track
• Rare screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests including Margaret Sullavan, Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine (9:11)
• The Making of Rebecca featurette (28:05)
• The Gothic World of Daphne du Maurier featurette (19:01)
• 3 X 1 hour Radio Plays
• Hitchcock on Rebecca: excerpts from the director's conversations with filmmaker Francois Truffaut (9:19) and Peter Bogdanovich (4:26)
• Trailer
• Stills Gallery (Posters, Portraits, Behind the Scenes)

• Commentary with film historians Thomas Schatz & Charles Ramirez Berg
• Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound featurette
• A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming featurette
• Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali featurette
• 1948 radio play directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Audio interview: Peter Bogdanovich interviews Hitchcock
• Still gallery

• Commentary by Rick Jewell
• Commentary by Drew Casper
• Theatrical trailer
• Isolated Music track
• The Ultimate Romance: the Making of Notorious (28:20)
• Alfred Hitchcock The Ultimate Spymaster (13:09)
• The American Film Institute Award: The Key to Hitchcock (3:19)
• Complete broadcast of the 1948 Lux Radio Theater adaptation, starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten
• Hitchcock Interviews - excerpts from the director's conversations with filmmaker Francois Truffaut (16:22) and Peter Bogdanovich (2:19)
• Restoration Comparison (2:54)
• Trailer
• Stills Gallery (Posters, Portraits, Behind the Scenes)

New to this special collector's edition of To Catch a Thief is an audio commentary with Peter Bogdanovich, a former film critic and a director in his own right, who's joined by author and documentarian Laurent Bouzereau. Like the movie itself, the commentary is light and breezy. Bogdanovich's comments are of most interest when he touches on To Catch a Thief from a director's perspective as well as reflecting on his meetings with Hitchcock on the sets of Topaz, The Birds, and Torn Curtain and sharing such personal touches as the tearing up of Cary Grant's eyes when he laughed. His remaining comments are otherwise fairly routine for anyone who's done any reading on Hitchcock; skim through Hitchcock's Wikipedia entry and read through Truffaut's extensive interview with the director, and little of this will be revelatory. Bouzereau acts more as a moderator than a speaker, trying to stave off gaps in the discussion, but the two of them have so little to say about To Catch a Thief in particular that they veer into such side conversations as the first Hitchcock movies they'd seen. There are enough interesting notes to make this commentary worth a listen, though, such as how this was a rare whodunnit? for Hitchcock, the director's work in the silent movie era shaping his later work as a filmmaker, contrasting the more overt sexuality of the films of the '30s with the repressed '50s, and likening To Catch a Thief with other of his works, particularly Rear Window, Notorious, Marnie, and The Birds. Pleasant enough, if not an essential listen.

Blu-ray Alfred Hitchcock set (9/4): Not certain, but thinking this will contain The Birds, Psycho, and Vertigo