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This Review is based on the Full Super 8 Feature release from The Reel Image
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 ) Paramount Studios Starring James Stewart and Doris Day, Directed By Alfred Hitchcock
THE PLOT: An American couple, the McKennas and their only son are vacationing in Morocco where they befriend a French gentleman name Louis Bernard who is very friendly yet somewhat suspicious. Bernard offers to take the couple to dinner and then immediately cancels when a strange man accidentally knocks on the McKennas door. The story becomes more suspicious when at Dinner on there own, the Mckennas see Bernard enter the very same Restaurant with a woman they have not met. The following day at a Moroccan Market the Mckenna family are enjoying the sights the Mckennas see a man being chased by police and he is then stabbed in the back by a stranger. Dying, the man walks towards Ben McKenna and collapses in front of him. Ben ( Stewart ) realizes the dying man is a disguised Louis Bernard who whispers a warning to Ben about an assassination plot of a Stateman in London and alert the authorities about " Ambrose Chappell". While at the local police station giving his statement, Ben receives a phone call from another stranger informing him that "they" have kidnapped his son Hank and will not harm him as long as Ben keeps Bernard's warning to himself.
Summarizing the film any further would reveal many spoilers, thus suffice it to say it is the typical Hitchcock thriller with plenty of suspense, a Rousing Bernard Herrmann score, and fine performances by Stewart and Day.
The Print: My print arrived on 7X400' reels. Polyestar Low Fade stock. The Print has Dual Magnetic tracks which offer excellent recording quality as the finished recording booms with clear fidelity and very dynamic range. The picture / color quality is the usual superb quality one can expect from A Reel Image Print. It equals the color and sharpness excellence of Rear Window and Vertigo, Also from Steve. All Hitchcock / Super 8 fans should consider this one for their collection. Thoroughly entertaining from start to finish...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 ) Paramount Studios Starring James Stewart and Doris Day, Directed By Alfred Hitchcock
THE PLOT: An American couple, the McKennas and their only son are vacationing in Morocco where they befriend a French gentleman name Louis Bernard who is very friendly yet somewhat suspicious. Bernard offers to take the couple to dinner and then immediately cancels when a strange man accidentally knocks on the McKennas door. The story becomes more suspicious when at Dinner on there own, the Mckennas see Bernard enter the very same Restaurant with a woman they have not met. The following day at a Moroccan Market the Mckenna family are enjoying the sights the Mckennas see a man being chased by police and he is then stabbed in the back by a stranger. Dying, the man walks towards Ben McKenna and collapses in front of him. Ben ( Stewart ) realizes the dying man is a disguised Louis Bernard who whispers a warning to Ben about an assassination plot of a Stateman in London and alert the authorities about " Ambrose Chappell". While at the local police station giving his statement, Ben receives a phone call from another stranger informing him that "they" have kidnapped his son Hank and will not harm him as long as Ben keeps Bernard's warning to himself.
Summarizing the film any further would reveal many spoilers, thus suffice it to say it is the typical Hitchcock thriller with plenty of suspense, a Rousing Bernard Herrmann score, and fine performances by Stewart and Day.
The Print: My print arrived on 7X400' reels. Polyestar Low Fade stock. The Print has Dual Magnetic tracks which offer excellent recording quality as the finished recording booms with clear fidelity and very dynamic range. The picture / color quality is the usual superb quality one can expect from A Reel Image Print. It equals the color and sharpness excellence of Rear Window and Vertigo, Also from Steve. All Hitchcock / Super 8 fans should consider this one for their collection. Thoroughly entertaining from start to finish...
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