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MOVIE · 1935

The Man Who Knew Too Much

CrimeDramaMysteryThriller76 min

While traveling in Switzerland, a British couple and their daughter get pulled into an assassination plot after a dying stranger passes along a dangerous secret. Once they know too much, their child is kidnapped to keep them silent, and the family is forced into a maze of threats, false leads, and police skepticism. Back in London, the search draws them from polite society into the orbit of a criminal gang with its own plans for the coming attack. Leslie Banks is the father racing to piece together the plot before the killers strike, while Peter Lorre looms over the conspiracy as the pressure closes in.

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