THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956) - Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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I wish I knew half as much as the guy who knew too much
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Starring:
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, and Daniel Gélin
Written by:
Charles Bennett, John Michael Hayes, and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Directed by:
Alfred Hitchcock - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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And another Hitchcock film to be checked off! This time, a film that feel the most Hollywood blockbuster out of all of them. Easy to follow plot, spectacle, unique locations, fun action, and lots of mystery! I really liked this film but that orchestra scene was something special wasn't it.
Thanks for watching! Have a great day! :)
The music in the orchestra scene is called the Storm Clouds Cantata by Sir Arthur Benjamin which was also used and written for the 1934 film. Hitchcock asked Bernard Herrmann to compose his own orchestral piece for the film, but Herrmann insisted that he couldn't do better (although he probably could since his Cocerto Macabre for the thriller Hangover Square is magnificent) than Benjamin's work for which he had huge respect.
Most of Doris Day's film roles were in comedies and musicals, but three of her dramatic ones were in Storm Warning (1951), Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) and Midnight Lace (1961). She was a bundle of talent.
Marnie!!!!!!!!! Starring Sean Connery!!!!!!!
In it's day, this was one of the most popular Hitchcock films. Most of the ratings are from the last quarter century. Family suspense like this is no longer popular
I think I have mentioned this before but “The trouble with Harry” is an underrated Hitchcock film that I think you would love. Dark comedy. Shirley Maclaine, John Forsythe, Jerry Mathers.
Doris Day's acting is wonderfully intense from the grief when she first finds out about her son, to the torture she endures during the orchestra scene. A terrific performance and great movie choice Ollie!
Totally agreed. (And I voted for you back in '80, John.😄)
She used to play and was known mostly for silly comedies and a lot of people don't know how great an actress she was. This is indeed one of her finest performances.
"Midnight Lace" with Doris Day was very good.
Doris Day was one of the great musical stars of the 50s. A great future choice would be “Pillow Talk” with her and Rock Hudson. Besides being pretty funny, it started a whole genre of “sex comedies” in the 60s, although they are pretty tame by todays standards.
A good Hitchcock would be “Shadow of a Doubt.” It’s a black and white from the 40s, but I believe it was Hitchcock’s own personal favorite among his films and there is terrific suspense.
"Calamity Jane" features another top-tier Doris performance and smash hit (the #1 "Secret Love"), and maybe represents her best musical outing.
@@slc2466 yes, that’s one of my favorite films. I have it on DVR and frequently watch it.
I liked "Send Me No Flowers" with Doris & Rock the best.
Ollie, I am so glad you watched this one and so glad you gave Doris Day her due for her magnificent acting in this. Doris was primarily known as a musical comedy star up to this point and she was never known for her great acting abilities, although they were obviously there. The sedation scene is a masterclass of acting ability. She has to react to her son's kidnapping as a mother, yet she is fighting to stay awake after being sedated. What an incredible combination of challenges as an actor and she rises to them incredibly well. She really does raise the movie to another level.
I would love to see you enjoy The Trouble With Harry next!
So glad you finally reacted to this great Hitchcock movie, Ollie. You were so intense throughout the movie. Correct that Bernard Herrmann composed the incidental score and did the cameo conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus but the actual piece of music he was conducting was NOT composed by Herrmann but by Australian composer Arthur Benjamin. It's called "Storm Cloud Cantata." It was used in the original 1934 movie but it was too short. Hitchcock asked Herrmann to extend it longer to create more suspense. All Herrmann did was repeat one choral section and then segued to the part when the snare drums enter. It worked. An interesting fact about this piece of music: After it was premiered for the 1934 film, it was banned from being performed from any concert hall in fear that someone may get the same idea from the film for an assassination plot. When Hitchcock remade the film, he did film inside the interior of the Royal Albert Hall and had a considerable amount of extras seated in the mezzanine and box sections but the audience down below was cut and paced into the film by Albert Whitlock and the film editors to give the impression of a full concert hall. What you were seeing were people reacting to the film of Herrmann and the musicians' performance previously filmed because, as noted before, the piece was banned from any live performance. The song Doris Day sang "Que Sera Sera" was a big hit for her and it won the only Oscar for this film. The 1934 film is known only for the performance of the great Hungarian actor Peter Lorre who would go to make many American films for Warner Bros such as "The Maltese Falcon," "Casablanca," and "The Beast with Five Fingers."
Doris Day only did 3 suspense movies! She was known for musicals and comedy, but she was also a great dramatic actress. The other movies are “Julie” and “Midnight Lace” both are really great!
The moment when he explains his business to the taxidermist and they completely misunderstand is such a funny scene. They actually thought he wanted a dead man stuffed. This is so Hitchcock.
Another murder movie you should absolutely check out is the Thin Man series. Merna Loy and William Powell. Their on screen chemistry is so 🔥
Saboteur is another great Hitchcock film, released just after the American entry into WW2. Starts in California and winds up in NYC.
Bernard Hermann had a dust up with Hitchcock over the soundtrack to Torn Curtain in the early 1960s.
Doris Day is an underrated actress in my opinion. I think this stems from the fact that she mainly did movie musicals. I love her voice. One of my favourite movies she did is Calamity Jane.
Oscar worthy performance by Doris Day, who was also a wonderful singer - she did a lot more than Que Sera Sera. She makes this my favorite of the trilogy J. Stewart did with Hitchcock in the 50s - although most critics would disagree.
The Albert Hall sequence is the best but I also love the Ambrose Chapel sequence---the discovery by Mrs. Drayton that there's a man and wife who knows a bit more than they expected.
Regarding blockbuster status, "Man Who Knew Too Much" was popular upon it's initial release, but not at the level of "Rear Window" and "North By Northwest." According to Variety's yearly report of box-office rentals, "Man Who" took in $4.1 million in 1956, placing #17 for the year, compared to the $5.3 million "Rear Window" take (#5 for 1954) and the $5.25 million for "North" (#6 in 1959).
"Marnie" could be your next Hitchcock movie!! It stars Tippy Hedrin from the Birds and Sean Connery the original James Bond. A clever mystery that echoes the theme of Psycho a little!
It's a fascinating movie.
Marnie!!!!!!!
I loved your reaction.
You inspired me 10 min in to pause your video and go rewatch the film first (it’s been decades since I revisited it) and I thank you for the inspiration.
I challenge you to go back though to just the last 2 min of the film - the abrupt ending and watch it again.
The nature of reaction videos means sometimes you miss a moment while communicating a thought.
The comedy awkwardly sprinkled throughout - like Jimmy Stewart trying to sit at the pillow floor restaurant, the weirdly choreographed taxidermy fight scene etc are all endearing but clumsy.
However.
The final moment, Jimmy’s deadpan last line to the unexplainable living room full of passed out casual acquaintances STICKS THE LANDING.
I choked on my water.
Hitchcock spent 8 full min having the movie audience watch a orchestral concert while Doris Day chewed the drapes (in the best way) - but then he can’t spend 30 seconds letting the movie breathe after the staircase fall.
Just PUNCHLINE
Fade.
I think it might be the best ending to any movie ever in the history of sentient life.
Maybe you can watch "The Man Who Knew Too Little" (1997). It's a comedy with Bill Murray.
Yes the Oratorio performed is composed by Bernard Hermann, and he is the conductor in the film. Hermann was among the greatest Hollywood film composers. In this case, he composed a spoof of the typical overblown English oratorio ---- it was a genre that English composers were notoriously addicted to.
In the 1934 U.K. version of the film, the husband and wife are equally tough, brave and resourceful --- the wife doesn't faint or go into hysterics. But in 1956, attitudes toward women were very different. The husband drugging his wife before telling her the kid was kidnapped is typical of those 1950s attitudes. At the time, psychiatrists and doctors were constantly prescribing tranquilizers to women, considered to be be fragile and irrational. But back in the 1930s, women were expected to be tougher.
Doris is a treasure. My favorite movie with her is the musical Calamity Jane (1953) ~ with Howard Keel. Incredible amounts of energy!
Thank you for doing all these great Hitchcock movies. A few superb Hitchcock movies which have never been watched by TH-cam reactors are:
Lifeboat (1944)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Suspicion (1941)
Alfred Hitchcock loved music composer Bernard Hermann. You should listen to the opening score of North by Northwest. You can tell it’s a good movie just by the score.
One of my top 4 Hitchcock movies. The scene where Doris Day breaks down after finding out her son has been kidnapped is flawless and gives me chills every time I see it. You've seen James Stewart in this picture, Vertigo and Rear Window. More James Stewart movies worth doing are:
1939 Mr Smith Goes to Washington
1950 Harvey
1959 Anatomy of a Murder
1962 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation
1965 Shenandoah
The song Que Sera Sera won the academy award for best song but I like the song she is singing in the background while James Stewart and their son are coming down the stairs at gunpoint. The song is We'll Love Again.
Nice reaction 👍. Glad you enjoyed it.
Don’t forget The Shop Around the Corner!
Don't forget It's a Wonderful Life
This is my one of my top fav movies! Thank you for reacting to it. The part where she sings that iconic song that her song with her son to send a message to him. I always cry LOL
Hey Ollie. Yes at 2:40 "Casablanca" (1942) is an iconic war/romance movie made during and about WWII. Casablanca probably has more iconic lines that any other movie, some you'll likely recognize. One you should do someday but put yourself in a WWII frame of mind when watching! Excellent Hitchcock choice today, BTW.
@ 6:53 And if you're in for a scifi classic, another iconic movie also with the music of *Barnard* Hermann do "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) where Hermann's memorable music includes a theremin! It's a must for any scifi enthusiast, one made not long after WWII and during the small but growing Cold War with an interesting message for humanity. And it's best to see it before watching Independence Day for reasons you'll have to see. (Don't want to spoil it.) 🖖😎
Yes, Ollie must remember this: "Casablanca" deserves a reaction, and will probably get a big one from him.
@@slc2466 I agree---The Day the Earth Stood Still is my kind of sci fi. How it weaves a message, aliens, and the effect it has on normal people (Spielberg overreaches but goes there frequently) is fabulous. The music and Patricia Neal are tops.
@@marksumner6468 I had a brief exchange with Ms. Neal a few months before she passed at a showing of "A Face in the Crowd" and book-signing, wherein it's the only time I've been completely star-struck, but I did mention "Day the Earth" as one of the earliest films I loved in childhood. She still had that wonderful voice and down-to-earth sensibility, and she gave a wonderful interview.
@@slc2466 wow. What a privilege and treat!
You'll find that Hitchcock's camera movement is always exquisite.
Along with his timing, writing, casting and everything else.
He is the master, no one does it better.
You should watch ‘’Cape fear,’’it has an amazing Bernard Herman score.
Hey RPO, you edited out the trademark Hitchcock cameo (he enters from the left and stops to watch the acrobats, you only see him from the back). And, by the way, the actress who plays the London hotel room friend in the red dress is none other than Carolyn Jones, best known as Morticia Addams on TV's The Addams Family.
The talented Jones had quite a run in the 1950's, making strong impacts in a host of small but (in her hands) significant roles in major films, such as "The Big Heat," "House of Wax," "The Seven Year Itch," "The Tender Trap," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and her fantastic, Oscar-nominated work in "The Bachelor Party."
Thanks, Oliver! 🔮 #RolyPolyOllie #AlfredHitchcock #TheManWhoKnewTooMuch The song "Que Sera, Sera" was my great-grandmother's favorite. If you'd like more from Doris Day, I hope you'll watch CALAMITY JANE (1953).
Great Raction video, thank you, such an entertaining movie.
It has some very dark "themes" such as child abduction, a mother losing her child and her dilemma, assasination, etc ..yet is mixed in with music, comedy, cultural travelogue, and some great cinematography and acting...quite something.
I do think the Godfather 3 took a lot from the Orchestra scene in this movie.
Other classics: Mr. Roberts, Bridge Over the River Kwai.
You’re reacting to some really classic movies.
The concert piece is "Storm Cloud Cantata" that Hitchcock commissioned for his original Man Who Knew Too Much in 1934. Bernard Herrmann said he couldn't do any better, so they used it again. You should really do LIFEBOAT -- another underrated film!
Thanks for reacting this this film. It was my little sister's favorite Hitchcock movie and it's mine too.
This was always one of my favourite films, could never understand why it’s so low on the list.
Not low on my list!
It's not low on my list, either. Top 5 favorite Hitchcock. 1. Rear Window 2. Dial M For Murder 3. North By Northwest 4. The Man Who Knew Too Much 5. Vertigo
One of hitchcock's most underrated films
excellent movie
The French do eat snails. It's called escargot.
You need to watch “the man who knew too little” with bill Murray
Doris Day was terrific in this movie she was so Muti fasted in her career also she keeps the movie way up
The movie is filled with comic touches, and the ending is perfect because now that the tensions have been resolved the final scene once again deflates the tension with humor - this time with the most brilliant comic touch of them all. Hitchcock was not just a master of suspense - he was a master of comic timing, and it would have ruined the comic timing of the final scene if he had the reunion with Hank with some pedestrian, run of the mill attempt to drag it out. I haven't seen your full length reaction, but it seemed like you were talking over the final scene, so you might have missed the humor there. The first time I saw this movie was on the big screen with an audience, and they exploded with laughter at the sudden cut from the saving of Hank to the still waiting relatives whom we (like the lead characters) had understandably completely forgotten about, and have now fallen asleep. Then Jimmy Stewart's great delivery of that wonderfully ironic closing line: "I'm sorry we were gone so long but we had to pick up Hank", is a much more original and satisfying ending, then some bland conventional "oh it feels so good to be safe again mommy" and "oh so happy to see you again Hank" ending that you seem to feel was needed. That's why Hitchcock was the master, and you and I are not!
As well as the wonderful effect that Bernard Hermann uses with the pounding tympanis both to punctuate the final joke and to transition to the final notes of the score with the closing logo - (and the accompanying final curtain raise which would occur for those watching it in the actual movie theater).
Agree- watched this with an audience years ago during a revival, and the final shot went over like gangbusters, preceding and foreshadowing the last gag in "Airplane!" by several decades.
My guess as to why low on the ratings scale... is due to the fact women would rather see a woman stabbed to death in a shower than have a child taken from his mother. Just my guess. Love it. Love Doris Day.
Have to watch Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk
Another awesome reaction!
More you have to watch the comedy classic The man who knew too little... with Bill Murray... Great reaction. 😊
Yes please react to “Marnie”!!!!! Sean Connery!!!!!!! 007!!!!!!! And tippi hendron (sp).
Both versions are great, the first version is a major film in his career, it wasn't just some random movie of his he was remaking. It doesn't matter what order you see them in, or how long in between, but the first one is definitely essential Hitchcock. Hitchcock scholars will tell you the first one is better. I can't argue, but I also can't put down the second one. I love both and they are best taken together. Bernard Herrmann refused to re-write the famous score from the original movie. It is an object lesson in Hitchcock in black & white and Hitchcock in color; Hitchcock in London, Hitchcock in Hollywood. It is an object lesson in how far Hitchcock had come.....and at the same time, it's an object lesson in how great Hitchcock was, right from the very beginning. They are meant to be taken together.
It depends on which Hitchcock scholar you ask. Robin Wood, arguably the greatest Hitchcock scholar of them all, certainly thought this version was far superior to the original, as did Francois Truffaut.
@@woobbryant The point is they're both worthy movies to watch and, in fact, if you TRULY want to appreciate the second one to it's fullest, you have to see the first one, it's inarguable. It's like to fully understand and appreciate the Scorsese remake "Cape Fear", you have to have seen the original, you simply won't "get" everything that's in it. Same thing here. The second one SHOULD be better.....that's part of the "point" of the movie. Ultimately the second one affirms the greatness of the original, and of the young Hitchcock himself. It wouldn't have so many homages the original and recreations of iconic sequences, otherwise.
Doris is great in this film but I don’t think she knew how good she was. She apparently didn’t have a great time on this film, because she felt ignored and not directed very much. As the story goes, Hitchcock finally said to her, “I’ll let you know when you’re doing it wrong.”
Doris Day during filming. Got frustrated with Hitchcock. He hadn’t said anything about her performance. Hitchcock said to her. “Ms. Day.” “If I had an issue with your performance.” “I would tell you.” Also Hitchcock and Day dismissed Que sera sera has a forgettable children’s song.
Loved your reaction ^^ btw, would you react to ALL james bond movies ? It would be so awesome :)
I'm reacting to all of them except the Craig ones because I have already seen those :)
His remake takes 30 minutes just to get going.
Rear Window is populist rather than intellectual.
Just keep the kid. He's a pain
This is the better movie. Of course Hitchcock wouldn't remake his movie if he couldn't bring more to it. However, the original is not a bad movie. It is smaller and less exotic. It is worth a watch, just for yourself. I lucked out in seeing the original first and this one latter.
This takes 30 minutes to even get going. I think 'star power' counts too much for some. More expensive locations don't improve acting/pacing.
Another one of those reactions where the joke is missed at the end because of the chatter.🤦♂
This movie is the best remake ever made.
Hitchcock himself seemed to prefer this version. He once said "the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional".