NEW in '53 : Grace Kelly in 3D !

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You’ll probably know the still seen here, and you have probably seen the movie where it was taken from: To Catch a Thief, starring Grace Kelly at her prime behind the wheel of a Sunbeam Alpine. Ironically it was filmed at the very road where she would find her death behind the wheel of another British classic many years later.

But what you may not know is that Kelly also starred in one of the very first 3-dimensional movies ever to have screened: Hitchcock’s ‘Dial M for Murder’. And this very weekend in 1953 the 3D craze started, with two films from the big production companies premiering: ‘House of Wax’ and ‘Man in the Dark’, with ‘It came from outer Space’ and ‘Dial M’ soon to follow.

Director John Carpenter recalled in his biography that he saw ‘It Came From Outer Space’ when he was five years old. And when a meteor flew right off the screen and blew up in his face, he knew he wanted to be a director when he grew up. Martin Scorsese declared ‘House of Wax’ the best 3D movie ever to be made, and he loved the fact that its director, Andre de Toth, only had one eye. Oh irony.

(Words Jeroen Booij, picture courtesy Paramount Pictures)

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