Wednesday, 20 December 2006

DVD: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

This, the original 1934 film of the Man Who Knew Too Much, is my preferred version. I find it exciting, amusing and charming. The dance scene in Switzerland has a great window, and the, um, charateristic Nova Pilbeam makes a fine kidnappee in her first Hitchcock film. And who can go past the great Peter Lorre, phoneticising his English curiously convincingly (he'd just escaped Nazi Germany and hadn't learned English yet)?

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