Movie Information
Overall Rank: 5420
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 52
Theatrical Release Date: 04/15/1935
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 01/15/2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam
Plot: At their dying friend's wish, Lawrence and his wife Jill recover information from a British Consulate. Yet this information, regarding an assassination attempt, results in the kidnapping of their daughter. While the husband goes after the daughter, it is up to his wife to prevent the assassination. -- Chris Kavan
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Rating of
3/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 04/06/2024
It doesn't have the urgency of the remake (also by Hitchcock). But what it does have is the dastardly presence of Peter Lorre as the smirking, calculating villain.
Rating of
3/4
Unknown - wrote on 02/02/2013
It's smart and fast paced, but lacks suspense. Never boring, yet not as involving as Hitchcock's usual work. I still enjoy this mostly for Peter Lorre's performance.
Rating of
2/4
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 12/09/2011
Film's starts to get interesting when Bob and Jill’s child Betty was abducted. Abbott (Peter Lorre) is the perpetrator and has plans of killing an Ambassador. The first half of the film was slow, with lack of better character development. Its pace picks up when Mr. Lawrence reunites with his kidnapped daughter. Has a decent score and earnest performances. Not enough depth from the antagonists nor thrilling scenes to keep it exciting, The Man Who Knew Too Much had a good premise, it only manages to entertain in the latter portion while the plot seems to go in different directions at times.
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