Post by kijii on Dec 29, 2017 18:11:59 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much
Sidney Franklin The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Stephen Weeks Gawain and the Green Knight and The Sword and the Valiant.
Hitchcock's remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is a prime example of why a director may want to take a good movie and make it even better (or different) by changing settings, adding color and a songstress, and even changing the story line.
While I love his later version with Doris Day, one should NOT overlook the original 1934 version about a woman sharpshooter who is able to save her kidnapped daughter. There are just so many sharp Hitchcockian moments in this 1934 version that one should not want to miss it!!
It also gives us an early view of the late Nova Pilbeam (1919–2015). She was only 15 in the 1934 version.
Hitchcock liked her so much, he later used her in The Girl Was Young (1937).
Both of these movies are examples of early across-the-country Hitchcock thrillers.