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The dialogue is appropriately tense and witty, and the story though with some padded-out moments is more developed and more freely structured than the original, the taxidermist scene is a good scene but the highlight is by far the Albert Hall climax. Bernard Hermann's score, what there is of it, is audacious and suspenseful, and while Que Sera Sera seems to be an excuse for Doris Day to sing and its placement in the film is somewhat forced it is a good song(much better than remembered) and Day sings it beautifully. Hitchcock directs splendidly, the Albert Hall sequence is Hitchcock all over and is one of his best-ever climaxes/scenes. However the production values are more polished than those of the original, which took a much grittier approach, and look beautiful in every aspect. The beginning is a little too padded out and the kid is annoying. On first viewing this remake was good, on re-watch it is now very good and just as much as the original. The original Man Who Knew Too Much from 1934 was a very good film, though not classic Hitchcock, gritty and suspenseful with a creepy Peter Lorre.
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