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The Man Who Knew Too Much

(1934)

All that keeps the first few minutes of this film from being perfect is the absence of William Powell and Myrna Loy as the loving, drinking, teasing couple and the substitution of an annoying kid for Asta. Still, good stuff--much better than Hitchcock's American remake 22 years later, even though that version has one of Hitch's two most engaging leading men. As I recall, the kid in that one's pretty annoying too, and one irrefutable advantage of this one is the utter absence of "Que Sera Sera." Another is Peter Lorre at his creepy jolliest.