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The Man Who Knew Too Much is a British film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in USA on 15 april 1935 with Leslie Banks
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
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Add to a movie listThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is a British suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.
Hitchcock remade the film with James Stewart and Doris Day in 1956 for Paramount Pictures. The two films are, however, very different in tone, in setting, and in many plot details.
The film has nothing except the title in common with G. K. Chesterton's 1922 book of detective stories of the same name. Hitchcock decided to use the title as he had the rights for some of the stories in the novel.
Synopsis
Bob and Jill Lawrence (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) are a British couple on vacation in Switzerland, with their daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). Jill is participating in a clay pigeon shooting contest. They befriend a foreigner, Louis Bernard (Pierre Fresnay), who is staying in their hotel. One evening, as Jill dances with Louis, she witnesses him being killed. Before dying, Louis passes onto them some vital information to be delivered to the British consul.Actors
Leslie Banks
(Bob Lawrence)
Edna Best
(Jill Lawrence)
Peter Lorre
(Abbott)
Nova Pilbeam
(Betty Lawrence)
Frank Vosper
(Ramon Levine)
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