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   Who starred in the man who knew too much?

   • The Man Who Knew Too Much: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper. 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.

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   Is the man who knew too much a Hitchcock movie?

   • But the menace in The Man Who Knew Too Much is mostly slick and subtle, like Abbott. Only here and there do we get a hint of the darker Hitchcock to come, as when Bob and family friend Clive (Hugh Wakefield) track the gang to a seedy dentist’s office and Clive winds up as one of the few permanently maimed characters in the director’s body of work.

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   Is the man who knew too much a melodrama?

   • 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. This is a suberbly structured thriller whose excellence is aided and abetted by a spirited cast.

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   Where can I watch 'the man who knew too much'?

   • Watch The Man Who Knew Too Much with a subscription on Max, rent on Apple TV, or buy on Apple TV. 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.

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   Who are Bob and Jill Lawrence from 'the man who knew too much'?

   • The playfulness of The Man Who Knew Too Much would carry through to later tales of elegant couples battling spies, from The 39 Steps (1935) to North by Northwest (1959). The vacationing couple are Bob and Jill Lawrence. She’s a champion sharpshooter, he’s a—well, we never find out, but whatever it is, it got them a vacation in St. Moritz.

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   What is a MacGuffin in the man who knew too much?

   • The Man Who Knew Too Much saw the first proper introduction of a " MacGuffin " — a storytelling device often attributed to MacPhail which appears in many of Hitchcock's subsequent films — in the guise of the message about the planned assassination of a foreign dignitary in London.

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   The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Leslie Banks and Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.

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   With Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper. 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.

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   • Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

   • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
   • Release Date: 1935-03-21

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   Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London. Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Betty in order to keep the Lawrence's quiet. Bob and Jill return to L...

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   After screenwriter Charles Bennett signed to British International Pictures (BIP) in September 1931, he collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on preparing a scenario based on the "Bulldog Drummond" series of books, written by Herman Cyril McNeile. In particular, Bennett was able to draw upon his personal experiences working for the British Intelligence Service during the First World War. However, studio head John Maxwell became increasingly concerned that "Bulldog Drummond's Baby" would be too c...

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   When Michael Balcon signed Hitchcock to Gaumont-British in 1933, they acquired "Bulldog Drummond's Baby" from BIP.As they were unable to also secure the rights to the "Bulldog Drummond" books, Hitchcock instead began working with Bennett on a new version of the scenario, jettisoning the Bulldog character.

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   Hitchcock's first film for Gaumont-British began shooting on May 29th and wrapped on August 2nd 1934. Free from the studio interference he had experienced at British International Pictures, under John Maxwell and Walter Mycroft, filming on The Man Who Knew Too Much proceeded smoothly. Editor Hugh Stewartlater recalled that Hitchcock walked onto the set on the first day of shooting, banged the script down on a table and announced "Another picture in the bag!" Although the film featured some se...

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   the MacGuffin- the assassination

   the cultured baddie - Abbott (Peter Lorre)

   the icy blonde - Jill Lawrence (Edna Best)

   the Hitchcock cameo- walking across the road as a bus passes by (unconfirmed)

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   Directed by: 1. Alfred Hitchcock Starring: 1. Leslie Banks - Bob Lawrence 2. Edna Best - Jill Lawrence 3. Peter Lorre - Abbott 4. Frank Vosper - Ramon Levine 5. Hugh Wakefield - Clive 6. Nova Pilbeam - Betty Lawrence 7. Pierre Fresnay - Louis Bernard 8. Cicely Oates - Nurse Agnes 9. D A Clarke-Smith - Binstead 10. George Curzon - Gibson 11. Frank A...

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   Jump up Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema (2000) by Tom Ryall, page 117

   Jump up MacGuffin Web Site: Charles Bennett's unpublished memoirs

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   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.

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   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...

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   1934 United Kingdom Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Produced by Michael Balcon Written by Edwin Greenwood, A.R. Rawlinson Featuring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre Running time 75 minutes

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    Jan 16, 2013 · The Man Who Knew Too Much: Wish You Were Here. By Farran Smith Nehme. Essays —. Jan 16, 2013. “I hate this sort of stuff,” grumbled Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Waltzes from Vienna, a musical about Johann Strauss the Younger, of all things, that he rashly took on during a jobless period in 1933. “Melodrama,” he said, “is the only ...