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Hitchcock Chronology: Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France...

1954

June

  • 25th - First unit location filming for To Catch a Thief is completed and the cast and most of the crew return to Hollywood to begin studio-based filming. Producer Herbert Coleman stays on in Cannes with the second unit team to shoot footage for the car chases, including aerial shots from a helicopter.[1][2] French film critic André Bazin, holidaying nearby in Tourrettes-sur-Loup, later writes of the helicopter shots, "That sequence must have been expensive!"[3]

References

  1. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, pages 114-15
  2. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 499
  3. Hitchcock Annual (2010) - Reflections on the Making of To Catch a Thief