Friday, September 05, 2014

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Second viewing; first seen between 1983 and 1986.

A man is vacationing in Morocco with his wife and nine-year-old son. They are befriended by a man on a bus, and get dragged into a political conspiracy.

Moderately entertaining thriller. It is very implausible, but the best sequence is probably the most implausible of all (it involves a church bell). It is not exactly suspenseful, although it supposedly intends to be; the sequence at the concert hall is rather awkward: you get to hear good music while you wait, and that is all. The featured song is puzzlingly out of place in a film like this: if "what will be, will be", why should I care what happens next?

Rating: 53 (down from 58)

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