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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) director Alfred Hitchcock

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Bad movie I have The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934

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Frank Vosper

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Stranger Flings

LOVE FROM A STRANGER Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 13th April 2024 Written by Frank Vosper in 1936, based on a short story from 1924 by Agatha Christie, this is not so much a whodunit as a who’s-gonna-get-it, as the identity of the murderer is hinted at almost from the start.  It’s the story of Cecily who, having won much more than a lucky dip on the lottery, finally believes she can…

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the part in Hitchcock's 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much where Nova Pilbeam is like, "i just don't like him. he has too many teeth, and... too much brilliantine!" and then the next frame is a close-up of the back of Frank Vosper's shiny head. gotta be one of the best visual gags of all time.

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First time posting my art. A few sketches of Peter Lorre as Abbott in The Man who knew too much.

I’m not a master artist, so constructive criticism is very welcome! :)

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Alfred Hitchcock

November 28th 2020

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12.30.19

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) director Alfred Hitchcock

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Suspense.

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Rome Express (1932)

“Discretion is the better part of Wagons-Lits.”

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Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, and Nova Pilbeam in The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)

Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, George Curzon. Screenplay: Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, Edwin Greenwood, A.R. Rawlinson. Cinematography: Curt Courant. Art direction: Alfred Junge. Film editing: Hugh Stewart. Music: Arthur Benjamin.

The first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much  was Alfred Hitchcock’s breakthrough film, a critical and popular success that also established Peter Lorre as an international star. It was Lorre’s first English-language film. (He is said to have learned the role phonetically.) Lorre had made his reputation with M (Fritz Lang, 1931) in Germany, which he left in 1933 he had left because of the rise of the Nazis. His performance is perhaps the most memorable thing about The Man Who Knew Too Much, which sometimes feels slack and disjointed, as if Hitchcock hadn’t yet mastered the technique of seeing the film as a whole. Comparing it to his 1956 remake, Hitchcock told François Truffaut, “The first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional.” Lorre plays Abbott, the mastermind of a group of radicals who are plotting the assassination of the leader of a European country – the politics are the film’s MacGuffin, a vague motive that spurs the action. When Bob Lawrence (Leslie Banks) accidentally learns of the plot, his daughter (Nova Pilbeam) is kidnapped to prevent him from going to the police, but his wife (Edna Best) manages to foil the assassination by screaming when she spots the killer at the point in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall when a cymbal crash is supposed to cover the sound of the gun. Even so, there’s a lot of action left as Lawrence frantically tries to rescue his daughter while the police shoot it out with the bad guys. Banks and Best are a rather pallid couple – he’s given to “stiff upper lip, old girl” exhortations, and although she’s a champion sharpshooter who fires the shot that kills the assassin, she has little to do the rest of the time but dither and emit that crucial scream – so it’s no wonder that Lorre steals the film.

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THEATRE REVIEW: Love From A Stranger

THEATRE REVIEW: Love From A Stranger @captheatres @lovefromuktour

The tone of Frank Vosper’s entertaining reworking of Agatha Christie’s stage adaptation of her short story Philomel Cottage is established in the sprightly opening exchange between Louise Garrard (Nicola Sanderson hamming it up in glorious Hyacinth Bucket style) and her niece’s friend Mavis Wilson (a solid Alice Haig) when the former accidentally breaks an ornate candlestick but covers up her…

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* OUTSTANDING CLASSIC CINEMA #60: "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH" ©1934 Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (Spy / Action Genre - Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, and Frank Vosper), Produced by Alfred Hitchcock & Michael Balcon https://www.kellygrant.ca/OutstandingClassicCinema.ubr

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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934 & 1956 - Hitchcock) Decoded!

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Director: Alfred Hitchcock Mistaken identities! World travelers! Mystery in the middle east! Secrets told, murder plots, kidnappings, and more – all in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH!   Decoding both the 1934 and the1956 versions of this Hitchcock classic spy movie! With special guest, Bill Koenig of The Spy Command!

Main Casts: 1956 Jimmy Stewart: Dr, Benjamin McKenna Doris Day: Jo Conway McKenna Christopher Olson: Hank McKenna Reggie Nadler – the assassin

1934:  Leslie Banks as Bob Lawrence Edna Best as Jill Lawrence Nova Pilbeam as Betty Lawrence Frank Vosper as Ramon Levine (The assassin/sharpshooter)

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https://spymovienavigator.com/podcast/the-man-who-knew-too-much/ 

Check out this episode as we are Cracking the Code of Spy Movies!