Monday, 30 June 2014

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955 released '56, Alfred Hitchcock & prod)

We missed him again - he's watching the acrobats in the Marrakech market. Though Herrmann also appears, as the conductor of Arthur Benjamin's Storm Cloud.

Tons of fun viz. Stewart's uncomfortable episode in (beautifully recreated) Moroccan restaurant, stabbing in market, escape from chapel, hilarious episode in taxidermist (reminiscent of Hitch's thirties British period), incredible silent-movie sequence in Albert Hall. And best of all, the hotel guests who don't leave! (Writer John Michael Hayes.)

Good cast as usual, Bernard Miles unrecognisable, Brenda de Banzie (Hobson's Choice), and particularly Yves Brainville as a suspicious police inspector.

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