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Chair fight scene is outrageously hilarious.Siskoid
1934's The Man Who Knew Too Much is very much in the mold of Hitchcock's British work, which is to say there's a strain of absurdist comedy running through the suspense story (as in The Lady Vanishes) and is compact to the point of feeling a little disjointed at times (like Saboteur or The 39 Steps). This is a mad tale that includes nefarious dentists and church ladies, a ridiculous chair fight, and an extended shoot-out between the vague foreign agents, the police, and maybe a skeet shooter or two. Hitchcock would remake The Man Who Knew Too Much more than 20 years after this original attempt, and do it better, with more money, especially the Albert Concert Hall scene which here doesn't quite create the same tension, though it does make the orchestra seem like co-conspirators in an assassination. What it has going for it the 1956 version doesn't is Peter Lorre as the head villain. Some worthwhile moments, but all in all, Hitch's own remake is the better version.Carota
scene at the church. the sung dialogue yet made me chickle but the chair fight killed mencc5843
Because the second movie is a remake of this one.corchap
And we all thought Clarke Gable was the first to say "damn" onscreen-- Lawrence, when trying to ask if the British Consulate was in town, gets frustrated and says "Damn!" And this was 5 years before Gone With the Wind.ClassicLady
You Tube link no longer functions.mabu mabu
Why did Hitchcock direct two movies under the same title "The Man Who Knew Too Much"??