
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934, Mystery & thriller, 1h 15m
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Movie Info
On a family vacation in Switzerland, Bob (Leslie Banks) and his wife, Jill (Edna Best), become friendly with a man staying in their hotel. When the stranger is assassinated in their presence, the vacation turns dangerous. Before dying, the stranger passes along a secret to Jill. Then, to keep the couple silent, a band of foreign assassins kidnaps their daughter. Offered no help by the police, Bob and Jill hunt for their daughter as they try to understand the information that they have.
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Genre: Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Producer: Michael Balcon
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Cast & Crew

Leslie Banks
Bob Lawrence

Peter Lorre
Abbott

Edna Best
Jill Lawrence

Frank Vosper
Ramon

Hugh Wakefield
Clive

Nova Pilbeam
Betty Lawrence

Pierre Fresnay
Louis Bernard

Cicely Oates
Nurse Agnes

D.A. Clarke-Smith
Police Inspector Binstead

George Curzon
Gibson

Henry Oscar
George Barber

Alfred Hitchcock
Director

Michael Balcon
Producer

Curt Courant
Cinematographer

Hugh Stewart
Film Editing

Alfred Junge
Art Director

Arthur Benjamin
Original Music
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Jul 07, 2018Thoroughly English in DNA and execution, this early Hitchcock presents a unusual couple who find themselves embroiled into some kind of mysterious and insidious spy plot. Peter Lorre is our Germanic bad guy whose politeness comes and goes erratically and is truly menacing for that. The set-up for the action involved is as questionable as it comes, but the payoff, a gunfight in downtown London, is worth the price of admission alone. As well, this work, along with Jamaica Inn, cements my growing suspicion that Hitch's best was his earlier stuff.
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Dec 29, 2016In Hitchcock's 'British' version of the film made two decades before the one with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day, it's the villains who are really well cast, with Peter Lorre and Cicely Oates turning in deliciously creepy performances. And there are some really nice touches here - the scene in the dentist's chair (who doesn't squirm at least a little seeing that setting, with those tools), a shot of Oates through bleary, hypnotized eyes, and of course the scene in the Royal Albert Hall, where suspense builds with an imminent assassination. It's nice that the film is to the point at 75 minutes, but it's a little awkward in the first part of the film, there are some odd plot points, and the shootout at the end is tediously long (it's telling that Hitchcock would omit that in the 1956 version). It's worth watching but certainly not a classic.
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Jun 16, 2014Boy how Peter Lorre creep the shit out of me with his face
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Aug 13, 2012An early Hitchcock that has a good story, but too many cliches.
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