The Man Who Knew Too Much
A film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Made during Hitchcock's prolific British period, The Man Who Knew Too Much is a taut, stylish, edge-of-your-seat thriller from the unrivaled Master of the genre.
While holidaying in Switzerland with their daughter, Betty, Bob and Jill Lawrence befriend a dashing Frenchman by the name of Louis. Jill and Louis hit it off immediately, teasing poor Bob with their good-natured flirting. But when Louis is shot in the middle of the dance floor, with his dying breath he informs Jill of a plot he's discovered to assassinate a French statesman, instructing her to go to the authorities with the evidence he hid in his shaving brush.
But just as they are about to inform the British consul, they discover that their beloved daughter, Betty, has been kidnapped by thugs who wish to keep them silent… What will the plucky British pair do?
Special Features:
- Image Gallery
- Original Theatrical Trailer of Hitchcock's 1956 Hollywood remake
- Holiday Snapshots: Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much by Mairéad Phillips, Cinema Studies, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
Critic Reviews:
- " The acting is for the most part simple and straightforward, but there is real subtlety in the performance of Peter Lorre, the Dusseldorf murderer of M, as the anarchist leader. " – Forsyth Hardy
- " A sort of British G-Men plot, proving that calmness in crisis is more terrific as a suspense medium than the constant rattle of machine guns. " – Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
- " One of Hitchcock's most unfairly overlooked accomplishments – a hidden gem in one of the cinema's most legendary careers. " – Matthew Lucas
