Alfred Hitchcock's - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) DVD Review

USA 1956

Alfred Hitchcock's had presumably more confidence re-telling this story that he originally made filmically twenty-one years earlier. James Stewart and Doris Day are excellent but in Hitchcock's overall canon this would still seem to be more of an also-ran. A good, seamless thriller, adeptly realized but lacking the punch of much of the Master's surrounding work. There are definite inferences of paranoia and cultural apprehensions during the early Moroccan sequences which builds well into the rest of the film. The dying man's whisper to the protagonist is an old ploy but Hitchcock pulls it off well, just not as masterful as he might have.

Gary Tooze

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Theatrical Release: June 1, 1956

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Distribution	Universal Region 1 - NTSC	Universal Region 2,4 - PAL
Runtime	1:59:44	1:54:55 (4% PAL speedup)
Video	1.83:1 Original Aspect Ratio 16X9 enhanced Average Bitrate: 6.58 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s	1.83:1 Original Aspect Ratio 16X9 enhanced Average Bitrate: 6:16 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate: Universal (The Hitchcock Collection)
Bitrate: Universal (The Hitchcock Collection)
Audio	2.0 Dolby Digital English, 2.0 Dolby Digital French (Dub)	2.0 Dolby Digital English, 2.0 Dolby Digital German (dub)
Subtitles	English, Spanish, None	English, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Universal Aspect Ratio: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.83:1 Edition Details: • Making of (34:17 / 4:3) • Production Photographs (4:07 / 4:3) • Theatrical Trailer (2.10 / 4:3) • Trailer compilation - Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, Rear Window • Production Notes (Text Screens) • Cast and Filmakers (Text Screens) DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001 Keepcase Chapters 18	Release Information: Studio: Universal Aspect Ratio: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.83:1 Edition Details: • Making of (34:18 / 4:3) • Trailer (2.08 / 4:3) • Trailer compilation - Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, Rear Window - narrated by James Stewart (6:14) • Art Gallery DVD Release Date: June 20, 2001 Digipack Box Chapters 18

Comments

The transfers and prints appear to be almost exactly the same with some marginal differences. Colors and infrequent damage marks are identical. The PAL edition has some minor cropping on the top edge (or the NTSC is slightly over-scanned) - regardless it is negligible.

Subtitles are positioned slightly differently in the two releases (see example below).

There are some insignificant differences between extra material and the menus are different. They both offer one foreign language DUB and the PAL release has more subtitle options (as usual).

*****

The DVDs of "Rope" released in France ("La Corde"), Spain ("La Soga"), and Italy ("Nodo Alla Gola") have the following:

audio: English, French, Spanish, and Italian
subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

Similarly, the DVDs of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" released in France ("L'Homme Qui en Savait Trop"), Spain ("El Hombre Que Sabía Demasiado"), and Italy ("L'Uomo che Sapeva Troppo") also have the same:

audio: English, French, Spanish, and Italian
subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

Unfortunately the details were collected from foreign DVD retail web sites, and I've not got any accurate details of the audio transfers (i.e. DD1.0 or DD2.0), but they're all likely to be mono.

(Thanks to Davey P of the Alfred Hitchcock DVD Information Site located HERE)

-Gary Tooze

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