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15 April 1935 (USA)
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Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world... more
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A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Leslie Banks | ... | Bob Lawrence |
| Edna Best | ... | Jill Lawrence |
 | Peter Lorre | ... | Abbott |
| Frank Vosper | ... | Ramon |
| Hugh Wakefield | ... | Clive |
| Nova Pilbeam | ... | Betty Lawrence |
| Pierre Fresnay | ... | Louis Bernard |
| Cicely Oates | ... | Nurse Agnes |
| D.A. Clarke-Smith | ... | Police Inspector Binstead (as D.A.Clarke Smith) |
| George Curzon | ... | Gibson |
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75 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (British Acoustic Film Full Range Recording System)
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Australia:PG |
Finland:(Banned) (1935) |
Finland:K-16 (1995) |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
USA:Approved (PCA #620) |
USA:TV-PG (TV rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Germany:12 |
Sweden:(Banned) |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:U (video rating) (1998)
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The dentist scene in this film was originally intended to take place in a barber shop. However, Alfred Hitchcock saw the film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), in which there is a scene exactly like it, so he changed it to a dentist's office. The film was originally intended to be another film in the Bulldog Drummond series entitled "Bulldog Drummond's Baby". However, Alfred Hitchcock and writer Charles Bennett did not get the rights to use the Drummond name.
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Continuity: (At 04:21) When Bob Lawrence and his daughter exit the chalet porch to watch the trap shoot, Bob pushes the left door outwards. When the camera cuts to an outside view of their leaving the building, it's the other door that is swinging shut, and it is closing from the inside.
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Featured in The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' (2000) (V)
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Storm Clouds
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Perhaps a bit hard to watch for younger generations, but this is the superior version of the yuppie couple whose only child is kidnapped and held for ransom (remade under the same title in the 50s by the same director, Alfred Hitchcock).
The film doesn't live up to "The 39 Steps" or "The Lady Vanishes" as one of Hitch's early works, but it is a superb example of classic low-budget filmmaking at its best. Yes, the effects (like the opening ski slope run) are incredibly laughable, but hey--it was filmed on a virtually empty budget by a relatively unknown director at the time with a low-budget cast in Britain.
Superb.
5/5 stars.
- John Ulmer