Alfred Hitchcock's "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH" (1956) - movie review
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
- I review Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, which stars James Stewart and Doris Day. This movie follows a married couple trying to hunt down their kidnapped son.
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I think what I find most interesting about Jimmy Stewart is his ability to switch between a standard easy going decency of the occasional glimpse of obsession - see Vertigo and of course his western movies with Anthony Mann although even Jeff Smith in Mr Smith Goes to Washington gets pretty close to hysteria by the end. But yes, I am nearly always up for a touch of Jimmy.
Hahahaha, "a touch of Jimmy". That should be a movie title itself! I love Frank Capra and I love the West Wing, which Mr Smith was clearly a big influence on. So yeah, I love that movie I guess is what I'm saying. But Capra was very good at pulling that intensity from Stewart. I think about the scene in It's a Wonderful Life where he's practically staring into the camera with the biggest eyes you've ever seen. Great stuff!
Yep. I agree with all this - and especially the Draytons, a very ordinary couple who happen to be hopelessly embroiled in evil. It's especially interesting to me because both de Banzie and (especially) Bernard Miles were more than capable of giving larger than life performances - the former most notably in Hobson's Choice where she holds her own between Laughton and John Mills whilst Miles was famous for running The Mermaid theatre and more especially his frequent turn as Long John Silver.
I'm a huge Doris Day fan and think she's very underrated as an actress. I could recommend many films of hers for you. Pillow Talk and Calamity Jane are two of my favorites. Love Me or Leave Me is a dramatic role that is great. I love this film. When she sings Que Sera it is beautiful and quite devastating
Love Me or Leave Me maybe sounds like the one I'd be best checking out then. I'll stick it on my watchlist!
Yes it's very good but Pillow Talk really is hilarious and quite racy for that era. Calamity Jane is just a joyous fun musical. Towards the end of her career she had a manager who stole from her so she was forced to take less quality roles which I think is why her reputation took a dive. Plus people never respect comedic/romantic actors the way they should. It's hard to do well
Yep - Love Me Or Leave Me is her best film although I quite like her RomComs and of course The Pajama Game
I think that comedic actors more often than not make for the best dramatic actors and that's usually because the comedy is used to mask or shake away the darker side of life. It's not that comedians don't see darkness. On the contrary! They've just chosen to do something about it, so they end up in comedy. Plus the best comedy usually has something more serious underlying it.
I can tell you why Hitchcock remade his own work.. the original didn’t have James Stewart! I looked into the other one a little and the characters are different. Don’t know about the story though. I really need to watch more Hitchcock, the only one I’ve really seen are the big popular ones, but this one is definitely added to watchlist.
Putting James Stewart in your movie is definitely a sure fire way to improve it! Of the Hitchcock's you may not have seen yet I would strongly recommend Shadow of a Doubt be on the top of that watchlist.
It's actually a cast review. not a movie review - Almost the entire review is about how well the actors performed. what about the film? There is more to a film than just the performance of the actors
I'm in a huge minority - I know - but I really think James Stewart is a bad actor, even though he's been in so many great movies but in my humble opinion that is despite his presence. Having said that, I have seen both versions and I remember first time watching the original thinking it was the better version yet after re-watching both films the remake is much more enjoyable. Then again, both are not top tier Hitchcock flicks for me.
Yeah, I have to agree to disagree on Stewart, but I also think The Man Who Knew Too Much is better than some of the films that most people deem to be top tier Hitchcock. I was just very pleasantly surprised by it whereas one of his "classics", that I will be reviewing in the not too distant future, I find to be very overrated indeed! Just out of interest, which handful of films would you personally say were his top tier efforts?
My top five Hitchcock titles are:
1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. North By Northwest
4. The Birds
5. Strangers on a Train
Psycho would even be in my top five films overall, I absolutely adore that movie.
I'm in total agreement with you're number 1 choice, but I don't think you're gonna like me very much after my next review in this series.
Hmmm. That could be very interesting!
@@erwanticheler That's an awesome top five Hitchcock.
Here are mine,
1. Rear Window
2. Dial M For Murder
3. North By Northwest
4. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 5. Vertigo
Strangers, Psycho, Rope, The Birds, Torn Curtain round out my top 10.