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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Won the Academy Award for song.
In this, the second version of the story, Hitchcock takes the time to further develop the characters and fill in a lot of the holes that the 1934 telling was contaminated with. Here the small family is out on an Moroccan vacation. The trio befriends a man that they meet on a bus, but become frustrated with him quickly as he seems to make himself more socially unavailable.
One day at the market, the man frantically approaches the husband and whispers to him a series of notes. He dies there in the husband's arms. The husband jots down the message with the intention of conveying it to the authorities, but their son is kidnapped soon after and the parents are instructed that if they keep quiet their son will be returned.
Of the dozens of stories that Hitchcock has told over the years, this is the only one that he has told twice. It's interesting that he chose this one to do so as he has had many better stories to retell, but both films are great and should be seen and analyzed by all fans of the master.
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
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