![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Man Who Knew Too Much - Ivor Montagu
While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can't talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made movie from 1934 and is now in the public domain. After coming to the United States, Alfred Hitchcock produced a remake of this movie in 1956 starring James (Jimmy) Stewart and ...
Keywords: Hitchcock; 1930s
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| M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder - Seymour Nebenzal
This film is nothing less than a masterpiece. It is a highly structured and stylized film about a serial killer. It created the serial kill genre, which includes such entries as Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960)). M was not only the originator of the genre, but arguably remains it preeminent entry...
Keywords: Thriller; Fritz Lang; German Expressionism; Peter Lorre
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Average rating: (27 reviews) |
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