A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 film of the same name, The Man Who Knew Too Much tells the story of a family which, while vacationing in Morocco, gets unexpectedly entangled in an assassination plot and is pursued by the conspirators who are hellbent on preventing them from causing any sort of interference with their plans.

Having watched a number of Hitchcock's films in the past few days, I was expecting another mood-escalating thriller from the genius filmmaker who never fails to amaze but this time the experience wasn't as satisfying as it has been on most occasions previously. The film no doubt delivers on most goods but unfortunately feels slightly overlong & extended in the end.

Featuring a clever plot,…

In the interest of reaping more profits in the Hollywood scene, Hitchcock assisted by Paramounts and equipped with more budget to remake The Man Who Knew Too Much, finally established himself to recreate his own work and of course with a significant different script and plot. As it happens, I've never seen the first version but this one is convince me enough to make an assumption that this version is more contemporary and not outdated because it was made specifically to confront the new era. Three and a half stars is probably too low to rate Hitchcock's. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense thriller film containing some mystery film component that contribute a tense impression; assassination scheme…

It’s fashionable to prefer the 1934 version to the 1956. I do, even if the remake is a better film. The earlier has the rough edges, power and concision of the Beatles in Hamburg. The latter has the polish and lush arrangements of their later studio tracks.

The biggest difference between the two, however, is not the enhanced production, or alien locations, or even the differences between a fresh and exciting director to the same one at the height of his powers. The biggest difference is that the mid-50s were the peak years of the domestic melodrama genre, emotional technicolor films from Sirk, Ray, and Minnelli that explored the struggle for control within a marriage, the balance of career and…

Hi everybody, my Hitchcock Festival continues, today it’s this little masterpiece. Surely one of the best known works of Sir Alfred, but not in the same league like „Psycho“ or „North by Northwest „. The movie about a family what witnessed a murder and been dragged into an international conspiracy. In the meantime the son will be kidnapped and the parents (James Stewart and Doris Day) tried everything to get him back.

Especially the first half of the film has it’s length, in some moments it seems that Hitchcock want to do it passionless and the special Hitchcock feeling is missed. In the second half he shows all his tricks we love in his movies. Some mentionable facts: the inaudible…

📣 My Hitchcock Year 2021 🎬

Hitchcock Film Nr.: #61 – My #08
Deutscher Titel: Der Mann, der zuviel wusste

Jobs: Director, Producer

my list: Hitchcock Year 2021

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Der Mann, der zu viel wusste, ist ein Remake vom Gleichnamigen Hitchcock Film (1934) . Die Story wurde angepasst, gestreckt und neue Handlungsstränge hinzugefügt und er ist so 45 Minuten länger.

Auch hier ist eine Familie auf Urlaubsreise nur diesmal in Marokko und es wird hier jemand erstochen nicht erschossen.

Überraschend fand ich das der Song „Que Sera, Sera“ von Doris Day gezogen aus diesem Film stammt. Klar, kannte ich den Song… aus Fußballstadion. Der Song ist ohnehin sehr eng mit Doris Day verbunden.

„Que Sera, Sera“,…

que sera, sera~

did doris day ever play an action hero or femme fatale because her just waiting and crying really was not doing it for me. even though of course this whole movie is about her being the mastermind, it's not overtly framed that way and i wish it was since it's quite campy in most aspects so that being played subtly didn't work for me. this came out before vertigo and similarly there's clearly gender commentary going on but unlike vertigo it's not really committed to as much as it should be or given much screentime. like when she gets drugged by her husband and it never gets touched on again... so frustrating with the 2 hour runtime.…

Después de ver la versión original, me pregunté como había hecho John Michael Hayes para transformar una historia de 76 minutos en una de 120, bueno, la respuesta lamentablemente es: con paja. La segunda mitad de la historia se vuelve insoportable, todas las escenas y planos se hacen larguísimos, la de la iglesia y sobre todo la del teatro que es eterna y solo tiene verdadera tensión un poco al final pero abusan tanto del recurso que yo ya me daba lo mismo lo que iba a pasar, después en la embajada también es cansadora, no entiendo por qué las alargaron, no generan suspenso sino fastidio.
No entiendo qué le vio Truffau de superior a esta versión por sobre la…