The Man Who Knew Too Much

Name: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: April 15, 1935
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Edna Best, Frank Vosper, George Curzon

1935

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Gaumont British Distributors | Release Date: April 15, 1935 | TV-PG

Starring: Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Edna Best, Frank Vosper, George Curzon, Hugh Wakefield, Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam, Peter Lorre, Pierre Fresnay

Summary: An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 75 min

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Scott Tobias

The Man Who Knew Too Much finds the director firmly back in his wheelhouse, extracting all the wit and suspense he can from a pulpy exercise in abduction and conspiracy. Read full review

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Alfred Hitchcock's direction, in which the story is told in sharp, abbreviated sequences gathering speed steadily toward their explosive climax, makes The Man Who Knew Too Much one of the neatest melodramas of the year. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Director Alfred Hitchcock, who would remake the movie in 1956 with James Stewart, invests each scene with a blithe sense of fun. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Philip French

The classic thriller in which Hitchcock truly discovered his metier as the 'master of suspense' and never looked back. [08 Aug 1999, p.10]

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Produced in England in 1934, The Man Who Knew Too Much was perhaps the first of Alfred Hitchcock’s films to openly attempt the autonomously cinematic, aggressively syntactic perfection with which he would later become synonymous. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

It is in this film that Hitchcock showed his development of a theme he would repeat in films to come--the innocent victim suddenly caught up in a terrifying situation with apparently no way out, coupled with breathless chases in popular public places. Read full review

Pauline Kael

The best scenes--especially an assassination attempt at Royal Albert Hall--are stunning, but Hitchcock seems sloppily unconcerned about the unconvincing material in between the tricks and jokes.

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