Is The Man Who Knew Too Much (Doris Day, James Stewart) worth watching?

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Okay, thank you, R1!

It is one of his very best films. The finale (no spoilers) is one of the finest sequences he ever crafted. That's a YES

Looks wonderful. Wish it were Amazon Primeable.

I got Amazon Prime to watch Bosch, season 2, and there hasn't been a single other thing I've wanted to watch that's free.

I wouldn't call it one of his best but it's very enjoyable, and almost campy at times.

Yes, I'm not a huge fan of old movies, but I watched this twice. I fell in love with Doris Day.

I love when she yells in the.. Oh that would be a spoiler

Ok, thanks everyone. I am going to watch it tonight!

Don't be afraid of laughing at some scenes

Watch it -- or don't watch it. Que sera, sera.

Yes! Anything with Doris is worth watching a thousand times over.

She got a lot of black cock in her trailer on this set!

r13 You're a liar. It's you that loves that big, ole black cock.

I love it when Jimmy Stewart drugs her before he tells her some bad news. Chivalry was not dead!

George W. Bush IS "The Man Who Knew Too Little."

r16 But he's rich darling. And when you're rich, you can do anything you damn well want.

could we totally ruin the thread and get a Trump reference now?

Believe it or not, it is a remake of another Hitchcock movie. In the remake, Hitchcock switched the gender roles. And of course the remake has better production values since it was done in color in Hollywood

It's very emotional. Keep a hankie handy; It's also very suspenseful.

OP, if you like that movie and want to see another Doris Day movie, watch"Storm Warning".

Doris's birthday is April 4th. Put it on your calendar.

Doris is excellent in " Storm Warning"- " The Man Who Knew Too Much" is the first Hitchcock movie I ever saw, and my first Doris Day film. I was 9. Since in love with both. I agree it is not Hitchcock's best. But I could watch Doris all day. And that song is a song of childhood.

I hate Doris Day and think she's a wretched old cow, but even I like her in this.

r524 Who milks your udders darling? I bet they sag to the ground.

I like this one but really, any Hitchcock is at least worth a shot.

Que Sera Sera!!

I really do think it's one of his best, and under-valued. I mean it's not of the holy trinity that is Vertigo / Psycho / Rear Window, but I'd put it on par with North By Northwest in the Top 5, probably. The original is good but everything he did in remaking it makes it better, and Stewart and Day are tremendously sympathetic in the film. That drugging scene is one of the most fucked up things Hitchcock ever came up with. The kid's pretty annoying though. Oh and Brenda de Banzie is WONDERFUL as the tormented terrorist who doubts her husband's convictions.

Whistle it! Whistle it as loud as you can!

We'll Love Again from the movie. She was fucking sublime.

It's good. I would say it's probably in the top 15 of Hitchcock films, somewhere between 12-15. Entertaining for sure.

Sorry we were gone so long. We had to go pick up Hank.

Ambrose Chapel

Hank, can you whistle that song?

That assassin was also the brainwasher in the original Manchurian Candidate. Who was he?

[quote]I mean it's not of the holy trinity that is Vertigo / Psycho / Rear Window, but I'd put it on par with North By Northwest in the Top 5, probably.

I like North By Northwest better. It's a flawless film, beautifully looking and Grant and Saint are one of the best looking couples in a Hitch movie.

It's a subtly feminist film.

The back story is that the Stewart character forces Day quit the job she loves (she's a singer) because he wants her staying at home raising their son like a good housewife & mother she's supposed to be.

Then the tragedy strikes.

Of course in pure Hitchcock fashion, what saves the day is her voice - the very thing Stewart denied her. And she uses that voice not once but twice.

The irony of it all is fabulous.

Any film with Doris in it is worth watching.

Thank you (r30) from the bottom of my heart.I love that song so much. A lovely ending to a not so lovely day.

Hey, fuckface/R25! If you're gonna try and insult me, at least get the formatting correct, you old dolt. Stupid.

It's one of my favorite Hitchcock films, definitely in my top 5. I've always loved it.

Well, OP?

I find it overlong and nowhere near deserving of the upper echelon of prime Hitchcock ouvre.

It's definitely pre ISIS time.

OP here: Thanks everyone.

I watched and enjoyed it, it was great. Doris Day was great. Bernard Herrmann in there, too! Hitchcock films are so beautifully made - casting, plotting, pleasurable, how it all ties together. They are fun.

I might watch the other Doris Day movie mentioned in this thread, but...does the fact that Ronald Reagan (ugh) is in it ruin it?

Also, is the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much worth watching?

The tense scene with the veil and "The Muslim religion allows for few accidents" made it kind of topical!

Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Jane Russell, Gene Tierney and Ava Gardner were all considered for the role of Jo McKenna.

The biggest reason I love it is because of Day. Not so much that it was a great performance, though it was very good, it was just fucking genius casting. Who the hell ever though Doris would be in a Hitchcock film? It really was stunt casting at its best and it worked.

Yes, she is definitely the star of the film, R48

Hitch always cast his own leading ladies, with some help from his wife.

Hitch definitely took pleasure humiliating Jimmy Stewart in the Moroccan restaurant scene.

STORM WARNING ripped off quite a lot of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

The original has more humor and is more feminist, but you have to keep in mind that it was filmed 70 years ago. Very little money, very little production values compared to today. Many things in the film were copied by other, later, films, so you will see cliches.

When many of us saw this film, we were kids stuck indoors on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the early 60s. . In those days, we were happy to have anything on tv to watch. A Hitchcock film was a "grown up" movie, but it interested us anyway because Hitchcock was very good at filling the screen and keeping the action moving.

We didn't mind how old the film was because we were used to watching old movies on rainy days. We were happy it wasn't yet another western or cheap gangster movie. You can't believe how many cheap gangster movies were made in the 1930s.

Anyway....I liked it

I dunno... this one didn't have any angels gettin' their wings in it.