The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934

Andre Sennwald, New York Times: Directed with a fascinating staccato violence by Alfred Hitchcock, it is the swiftest screen melodrama this column can recall. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Although the film is fast and consistently clever, it is more deeply flawed than any other Hitchcock film of the period, failing to find a thematic connection between its imaginative set pieces. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Vintage Hitchcock, with sheer wit and verve masking an implausible plot. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: An unusually fine dramatic story handled excellently from a production standpoint. Read more