Alfred Hitchcock Week - The Man Who Knew Too Much
We’ve reached the final installment of Alfred Hitchcock Week. Today’s feature is a great film - the 1934 (made in Britain) version of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Starring in the film are Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, and Frank Vosper. Also in the cast were Hugh Wakefield, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, and George Curzon.
In the 1934 version, the plot involves a British couple whose daughter is kidnapped while they are vacationing in Switzerland.
Hitchcock remade the film in the USA in 1956. The latter version starred James Stewart and Doris Day.
Alfred Hitchcock Week - Young and Innocent
The sixth featured film in iMovieCinema’s Alfred Hitchcock Week is a 1937 film from Hitchcock’s Britain years, Young and Innocent. (In the United States, the film had the title, The Girl Was Young.)
The film stars Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, and Percy Marmont. Other members of the cast include Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, George Curzon, Basil Radford, Pamela Carme, George Merritt, J.H. Roberts, Jerry Verno, H.F. Maltby, and John Miller. As he did in many of his films, Hitchcock makes a cameo appearance in Young and Innocent. The screenplay is based on the novel, A Shilling For Candles, by Josephine Tey.
The plot involves a man (De Marney) who is accused of murder, and who goes on the run to prove his innocence.
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