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Genre | Drama, Suspense |
Format | Dolby, Dubbed, Color, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Original recording remastered |
Contributor | Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Peter Camlin, Doris Day, Gladys Holland, Hillary Brooke, Milton Frome, George Howe, Daniel Gélin, Harold Kasket, Leo Gordon, Lou Krugman, Yves Brainville, Albert Carrier, Walter Gotell, Carolyn Jones, Alex Frazer, Barry Keegan, James Stewart, Ralph Truman See more |
Initial release date | 2006-02-07 |
Language | English |
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James Stewart and Doris Day give magnificent performances as Ben and Jo McKenna, an American couple vacationing in Morocco, whose son is kidnapped and taken to England. Caught up in international espionage, the McKennas' lives hang in the balance as they race to save their son in the chilling, climactic showdown in London's famous Royal Albert Hall.
Bonus Content:
- The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Production Photographs
- Trailers
- Production Notes
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 5.31 x 7.52 x 0.71 inches; 2.54 ounces
- Item model number : 1028307
- Media Format : Dolby, Dubbed, Color, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Original recording remastered
- Run time : 2 hours
- Release date : February 7, 2006
- Actors : James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : Spanish
- Language : French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
- Studio : Universal Studios
- ASIN : B000CCW2TS
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,388 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #301 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #1,259 in Drama DVDs
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That doesn't work out so well, and Jo (for Josephine) is very suspicious of Louis. But they do meet a friendly British couple, Lucy and Edward Drayton. They are un-strange and have bad hair, which made me suspicious.
The next morning, the McKennas join the Draytons at the outdoor market. They are transfixed when bartering is interrupted by the sight of gendarmes chasing two miscreants through the market. They are astonished when one of the pursued Arabs approaches, and it turns out to be a disguised Louis! Not only disguised, but dying from a knife in the back. With his last breath, the desperate Louis whispers a secret in Ben's ear.
On the way to the police station to make their statement, Jo asks Ben, "Why do you suppose he turned up in a Arab outfit and wearing makeup?"
Ben: "More important, why was he killed?"
Jo: "Maybe he was a spy or something like that. What were you writing? What was he telling you?"
She's not the only one who wants to know. The McKennas have a nightmare in store for them.
I had seen this 1956 movie on TV years ago but didn't really remember it. I am expanding my Hitchcock DVD library, and viewing this DVD was like seeing the movie for the first time. It is presented in anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1. Now owned by Universal Studios, it has been digitally remastered for this "An Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece" edition, published in 2006.
This is a good movie, though not my favorite Hitchcock. It feels a little dated during the Ben and Jo's intertwining actions and reactions when they get back to the hotel after leaving the police station. The whole scene bothers me. If my husband sedated me before telling me our kid had been kidnapped, I don't know that I'd forgive him. But then, there are a couple lines beforehand, which indicate that Jo had used, and maybe overused, tranquilizers before.
Overall, Hitchcock does his usual masterful job of showing a good man under stress and an intelligent woman under duress. In particular, the later action in Albert Hall gave me pause. If you could stop an assassination, but you'd been warned your child would be hurt if you did, I can imagine I'd be paralyzed as Jo was. She went to the scene, but she just couldn't take that last step. Desperate to speak and terrified to speak. Masterful acting and directing.
DVD Bonus Features:
1. "The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much" (33 minutes) This is an enjoyable special. Commentators include Pat Hitchcock O'Connell (Hitch's daughter), Herbert Coleman (associate producer), John Michael Hayes (screenwriter), Henry Bumstead (production designer) and Steven C. Smith (Bernard Hermann biographer). It also has Jimmy Stewart on set, but it's excerpts from the theatrical trailer included in Bonus Feature #3.
Steven Smith says that "music is almost a character in 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'.... Hitchcock needed a song for the film, because after all Doris Day was in the movie and Paramount wanted a song..... Hitchcock met with [the song-writing team] and told them very frankly that Paramount wanted a song more than he did in the movie. And he said, 'I don't know what kind of song I want in the movie, so go write me a song.' "
And that's how we got "Que Sera, Sera", which won an Academy award for best song and became a huge hit for Doris Day. I was a baby when the movie and song came out, so though I knew Doris Day sang this song, I had no idea it came from an Alfred Hitchcock movie - you could have blown me away with a feather! That sweet song and Hitch?! But it worked and the juxtaposition is perfect.
2. Production Photographs. This is a slideshow of posters and rehearsal stills. Some of the posters are foreign, such as "Der Mann, Der Zuviel Wusste".
3. Trailers. The first is the original theatrical trailer.
The second is a Re-Release trailer. Ten years after any had come out in theaters, five films were re-released: "Vertigo", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Rope", "The Trouble With Harry"(Shirley MacLaine's 1st movie role) and "Rear Window" (one of the best of the best!).
4. Production Notes: A few screens of background information. This film followed Jimmy Stewart in the hugely successful "Rear Window" (1954).
5. Languages. You can listen in English or French.
Subtitles are available in English and Spanish
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Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2013
That doesn't work out so well, and Jo (for Josephine) is very suspicious of Louis. But they do meet a friendly British couple, Lucy and Edward Drayton. They are un-strange and have bad hair, which made me suspicious.
The next morning, the McKennas join the Draytons at the outdoor market. They are transfixed when bartering is interrupted by the sight of gendarmes chasing two miscreants through the market. They are astonished when one of the pursued Arabs approaches, and it turns out to be a disguised Louis! Not only disguised, but dying from a knife in the back. With his last breath, the desperate Louis whispers a secret in Ben's ear.
On the way to the police station to make their statement, Jo asks Ben, "Why do you suppose he turned up in a Arab outfit and wearing makeup?"
Ben: "More important, why was he killed?"
Jo: "Maybe he was a spy or something like that. What were you writing? What was he telling you?"
She's not the only one who wants to know. The McKennas have a nightmare in store for them.
I had seen this 1956 movie on TV years ago but didn't really remember it. I am expanding my Hitchcock DVD library, and viewing this DVD was like seeing the movie for the first time. It is presented in anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1. Now owned by Universal Studios, it has been digitally remastered for this "An Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece" edition, published in 2006.
This is a good movie, though not my favorite Hitchcock. It feels a little dated during the Ben and Jo's intertwining actions and reactions when they get back to the hotel after leaving the police station. The whole scene bothers me. If my husband sedated me before telling me our kid had been kidnapped, I don't know that I'd forgive him. But then, there are a couple lines beforehand, which indicate that Jo had used, and maybe overused, tranquilizers before.
Overall, Hitchcock does his usual masterful job of showing a good man under stress and an intelligent woman under duress. In particular, the later action in Albert Hall gave me pause. If you could stop an assassination, but you'd been warned your child would be hurt if you did, I can imagine I'd be paralyzed as Jo was. She went to the scene, but she just couldn't take that last step. Desperate to speak and terrified to speak. Masterful acting and directing.
DVD Bonus Features:
1. "The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much" (33 minutes) This is an enjoyable special. Commentators include Pat Hitchcock O'Connell (Hitch's daughter), Herbert Coleman (associate producer), John Michael Hayes (screenwriter), Henry Bumstead (production designer) and Steven C. Smith (Bernard Hermann biographer). It also has Jimmy Stewart on set, but it's excerpts from the theatrical trailer included in Bonus Feature #3.
Steven Smith says that "music is almost a character in 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'.... Hitchcock needed a song for the film, because after all Doris Day was in the movie and Paramount wanted a song..... Hitchcock met with [the song-writing team] and told them very frankly that Paramount wanted a song more than he did in the movie. And he said, 'I don't know what kind of song I want in the movie, so go write me a song.' "
And that's how we got "Que Sera, Sera", which won an Academy award for best song and became a huge hit for Doris Day. I was a baby when the movie and song came out, so though I knew Doris Day sang this song, I had no idea it came from an Alfred Hitchcock movie - you could have blown me away with a feather! That sweet song and Hitch?! But it worked and the juxtaposition is perfect.
2. Production Photographs. This is a slideshow of posters and rehearsal stills. Some of the posters are foreign, such as "Der Mann, Der Zuviel Wusste".
3. Trailers. The first is the original theatrical trailer.
The second is a Re-Release trailer. Ten years after any had come out in theaters, five films were re-released: "Vertigo", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Rope", "The Trouble With Harry"(Shirley MacLaine's 1st movie role) and "Rear Window" (one of the best of the best!).
4. Production Notes: A few screens of background information. This film followed Jimmy Stewart in the hugely successful "Rear Window" (1954).
5. Languages. You can listen in English or French.
Subtitles are available in English and Spanish
Happy Reader
Jimmy Stewart was a great actor and always a pleaser to watch. Doris Day, however, was a tad annoying in this role and I would say did unto "fit " with the typical Hitchcock leading lady. The image of a natural attraction of the two lead characters seemed to be lacking.
Anyway, up until his final film, "Family Plot" which was filled with foul language and blasphemy, Hitchcock made a series of entertaining, suspenseful and reliably enjoyable films which you can watch with your family or children and not feel uncomfortable. While not his best, in my opinion, this film was among them.
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Nearly everything this man directed is worth a look. Yes, there are a few mis-firing “Hitch” pictures: the lackluster Topaz and the one-joke Trouble With Harry (oddly, the latter was one of the master's favorites) but this picture belongs to Div. I of the American period. It's a remake of one of his earliest black-and-white talkies, and features a classic Jimmy Stewart performance. (He plays opposite Doris Day, pictured.)
Here, as so often, Stewart plays a man with a lot of surface confidence who is liable to fall to pieces (à la Vertigo) under mental strain. That is supplied in plenty as a child gets kidnapped and spies seem smarter than the local coppers in two different continents.
Brilliant stuff, with one of the few (if not the only) on-screen appearances by Bernard Herrmann, the director's middle-to-late period composer (North by Northwest; Psycho). Oddly the most important part of the score is supplied not by Herrmann but by the Australian Arthur Benjamin (with lyrics by D.B. Wyndham-Lewis). The performance of this piece, the Storm Cloud Sonata, provides the basis for one of Hitchcock's most audacious, theatrical, funny and terrifying set-pieces.
A must-see.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2021
Nearly everything this man directed is worth a look. Yes, there are a few mis-firing “Hitch” pictures: the lackluster Topaz and the one-joke Trouble With Harry (oddly, the latter was one of the master's favorites) but this picture belongs to Div. I of the American period. It's a remake of one of his earliest black-and-white talkies, and features a classic Jimmy Stewart performance. (He plays opposite Doris Day, pictured.)
Here, as so often, Stewart plays a man with a lot of surface confidence who is liable to fall to pieces (à la Vertigo) under mental strain. That is supplied in plenty as a child gets kidnapped and spies seem smarter than the local coppers in two different continents.
Brilliant stuff, with one of the few (if not the only) on-screen appearances by Bernard Herrmann, the director's middle-to-late period composer (North by Northwest; Psycho). Oddly the most important part of the score is supplied not by Herrmann but by the Australian Arthur Benjamin (with lyrics by D.B. Wyndham-Lewis). The performance of this piece, the Storm Cloud Sonata, provides the basis for one of Hitchcock's most audacious, theatrical, funny and terrifying set-pieces.
A must-see.
E' un film che non può mancare nella cineteca di chi ama il giallo e la suspence.
consigliato!!
Mais à retrouver ce film on apprécie surtout les deux grands acteurs que sont James Stewart et Doris Day si bons dans leurs rôles respectifs à tel point que l'on oublie qu'il y a la caméra. On est dans le film avec eux et nous aussi sous le regard de Hitchkock qui semble nous dire regarde Doris Day comme elle est belle et émouvante ! et James Stewart n'est-il pas un peu gauche avec ses grandes jambes (pointe d'humour au passage à propos des maladresses des touristes).
Il y a aussi un acteur français que l'on aime bien : Daniel Gélin et qui semble être le personnage français malotru que J. Stewart est à deux doigts de boxer (comme dans ses westerns) alors qu'il est l'espion du bon côté.
Je ne trouve pas que le film a vieilli, le talent d'Hitchcock maintient le spectateur en attente des événements tout au long de ces deux heures de film.
Peut-être un peu rétro : la vision du Maroc et de la Mamounia.
Und wie das geht! Die eine steht für Herz, Schmerz & Co, der andere für Hochspannung. Beide Elemente kommen in dem Film zu ihrem Recht - und harmonieren prächtig miteinander.
Das Ergebnis: ein mitreißender Film (hier hat das Knabberzeug echt Pause)!