The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock’s British period.
Hitchcock remade the film in 1956 for Paramount Pictures, the only one of his films that he ever remade. The two films are however very different in tone, in setting, and in many plot details.
The plot concerns a British couple on vacation in St Moritz, Switzerland, Bob and Jill Lawrence, (Leslie Banks) and (Edna Best), and their daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam), and befriend a foreigner, Louis Bernard (Pierre Fresnay), staying in their hotel. One evening as Jill dances with Louis, she witness his assassination, as a French spy. Before dying, the spy passes on to them some vital information to be delivered to the British consul.
This is my LEAST favorite Hitchcock. I love Hitchcock’s remake (with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day), but this one is intolerable!