Hitchcock’s THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, 1934 & 1956
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RINSE "Does It Feel Like Heaven" ft. Hatchie released released March 29, 2023 via Music Website (@musicwebsiteblog)
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Wild Nothing (f. Hatchie) - Headlights On (from Hold out Oct 27)
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Fiona Reynard, Gene Foad, Suanne Braun, Simon Lewis, Brad Gorton, Claudia Christian, Wayne Pilbeam, Stephanie Jory, Rebecca Nichols, Rachel Grant, Jeremy Bulloch and Jason Bailey in “Starhyke”
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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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Nova Pilbeam Counterblast (1948)
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YOUNG AND INNOCENT (Jeune et innocent) - Alfred Hitchcock (1937)
Robert Tisdall est accusé d’un meurtre qu’il n’a pas commis. Ses liens avec la victime, sa présence sur les lieux, tout l’accuse… Et si le véritable coupable était l’accusateur : la Justice ? Après le terrible Sabotage (Agent secret), Hitchcock choisit d’adopter un ton plus léger. En signant Young and Innocent (Jeune et Innocent), il renouait avec l’humour de ses premières comédies. Il inscrivit…
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Nova Pilbeam and Derrick de Marney in Young and Innocent (1937).
She looks a bit like Emma Watson, don’t you think?
This is a really fun movie that’s basically a very early action movie. Hitchcock was such a pioneer and his movies don't feel dated like others of the same era.
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