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     The Man Who Knew too Much
1934  NR  DRAMA  1h 15min
CAST— Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Frank Vosper, Pierre Fresnay
MUSIC— Arthur Benjamin  DIRECTOR— Alfred Hitchcock

     Solid suspense yarn delivered with flair, as a family of three becomes entangled in international intrigue. While a family friend lies dying, he uses his last breath to pass a secret to them regarding a paper hidden in his room. After finding the paper, the father tries to inform the British consulate about the secret message he’s just found. Suddenly, he and his wife are stopped dead in their tracks with another message revealing that their daughter has been kidnapped; if they reveal the contents of the secret message, she dies. Frustrated, her father decides to take the matter into his own hands, but the villains are a bit too tricky for him. Peter Lorre stands out as the slimy leader of this band of misfits on a mission to assassinate a European diplomat. The film has moments both good and bad, but the peak of the excitement is the finale, a rousing Western-esqe stand-off on the cold streets of London. Check it out.
OUR RATING— ** ½
REMADE AS— The Man Who Knew too Much (1956)