<P> Very few of these cars are ever seen on the big screen . However , a sapphire blue Alpine featured prominently in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly . More recently , the American PBS show History Detectives tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned by a private individual was the actual car used in that movie . Although the Technicolor process could `` hide '' the car 's true colour , and knowing that the car was shipped back from Monaco to the USA for use in front of a rear projection effect , the car shown on the programme was ultimately proven not to be the film car upon comparison of the vehicle identification numbers . </P>
<P> Very few of these cars are ever seen on the big screen . However , a sapphire blue Alpine featured prominently in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly . More recently , the American PBS show History Detectives tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned by a private individual was the actual car used in that movie . Although the Technicolor process could `` hide '' the car 's true colour , and knowing that the car was shipped back from Monaco to the USA for use in front of a rear projection effect , the car shown on the programme was ultimately proven not to be the film car upon comparison of the vehicle identification numbers . </P>
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Alpine
Alpine