The Man Who Knew Too Much [Criterion Collection]

The Man Who Knew Too Much [Criterion Collection]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Coleman Cast: Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks
, Edna Best
Edna Best
, Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre
, Frank Vosper
Frank Vosper
, Hugh Wakefield
Hugh Wakefield
The Man Who Knew Too Much [Criterion Collection]

The Man Who Knew Too Much [Criterion Collection]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Coleman Cast: Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks
, Edna Best
Edna Best
, Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre
, Frank Vosper
Frank Vosper
, Hugh Wakefield
Hugh Wakefield

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Overview

While vacationing in Switzerland, Britons Leslie Banks and Edna Best befriend jovial Frenchman Pierre Fresnay. Not long afterward, Fresnay is murdered. He whispers a secret in Banks' ear before expiring. This is witnessed by several sinister foreign agents, who kidnap Banks' daughter to keep him from revealing what he knows.

Product Details

Release Date: 01/15/2013
UPC: 0715515101714
Original Release: 1934
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:15:00
Sales rank: 12,250

Special Features

New Audio Commentary featuring Film Historian Philip Kemp; New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; The Illustrated Hitchcock, an extensive interview with Director Alfred Hitchcock from 1972, conducted by journalist Pia Lindstrom and film historian William K. Everson; Audio excerpts from filmmaker Fran?ois Truffaut's legendary 1962 interviews with Hitchcock; Restoration demonstration; ; Plus: A Booklet featuring an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Leslie Banks Bob Lawrence
Edna Best Jill Lawrence
Peter Lorre Abbott
Frank Vosper Ramon Levine
Hugh Wakefield Clive
Nova Pilbeam Betty Lawrence
Pierre Fresnay Louis Bernard
Cicely Oates Nurse Agnes
D.A. Clarke-Smith Binstead
George Curzon Gibson
Henry Oscar Dentist
Celia Lovsky Actor
Brenda de Banzie Actor
Bernard Miles Actor
Ralph Truman Actor
Daniel G?lin Actor
Mogens Wieth Actor
Alan Mowbray Actor
Hillary Brooke Actor
Christopher Olsen Actor
Richard Wattis Albert Hall Assistant Manager
Noel Willman Woburn, Special Branch
Alix Talton Helen Parnell
Yves Brainville French Police Inspector
Carolyn Jones Cindy Fontaine
Patrick Aherne Handyman
Frank Albertson Taxidermist
Frank Atkinson Edgar, a Taxidermist
Walter Bacon Church Member
John Barrard Taxidermist Holding the Panther
Betty Baskcomb Edna, the Church Organist
Eumenio Blanco Arab
Alexis Bobrinskoy Foreign Prime Minister
Lovyss Bradley Church Member
Emlyn Williams Actor
Bernard Herrmann Composer
Arthur Benjamin Composer

Technical Credits
Michael Balcon Producer
John Michael Hayes Screenwriter
Angus MacPhail Screenwriter
Herbert Coleman Producer
Farciot Edouart Special Effects
Gene Garvin Sound Effects
Frank Carroll Sound Effects
Alfred Hitchcock Producer
Edwin Greenwood Screenwriter
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis Screenwriter
Emlyn Williams Screenwriter
A.R. Rawlinson Screenwriter
Charles Bennett Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Man Who Knew Too Much
1. Opening Credits [2:01]
2. Close Call In St. Moritz [5:12]
3. "Don't Breathe a Word" [3:26]
4. Secret Messages [5:30]
5. Back in London [3:20]
6. Gibson, of the Foreign Office [6:45]
7. G. Barbor, of Wapping [7:23]
8. The Tabernacle of the Sun [6:30]
9. Chair Fight [4:19]
10. Calling Jill [5:33]
11. "Listen Carefully" [3:35]
12. Royal Albert Hall [5:52]
13. Back at the Hideout [2:58]
14. Surrounded [6:35]
15. Betty [6:53]
1. Color Bars
1. Locating the Audience [2:01]
2. "The First Real Hitchcock Film" [5:12]
3. Michael Balcon [3:26]
4. Bulldog Drummond's Baby [5:30]
5. The Cast [3:20]
6. "A Recurring Theme" [6:45]
7. Peter Lorre [7:23]
8. The Film's Screenwriters [6:30]
9. Penrose "Pen" Tennyson [4:19]
10. Two Versions [5:33]
11. Big Set Pieces [3:35]
12. "Storm Cloud Cantata" [5:52]
13. Siege of Sidney Street [2:58]
14. "Ordinary Police Methods" [6:35]
15. Hitchcock's Nemesis [6:53]
1. Part One/Actors [8:32]
2. Suspense [3:55]
3. Humor [7:55]
4. Fame [1:29]
5. Part Two/The Beginning [8:03]
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much [3:52]
7. The Audience [5:39]
8. Hollywood [6:42]
9. "The Need To Get It Right" [3:35]
1. "A Careless Mood" [3:57]
2. "I Owe It To Balcon" [3:28]
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much [2:56]
4. "The One-Note Man" [6:54]
5. Suspense and Surprise [5:39]
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