THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956) - Storm Clouds Cantata

[MrClaudeholmes]

This is one of my ( most ) favorite Hitchcock's movie along with this filmscore . This filmscore was Rerecorded by the Swedish - born Conductor Esa Pecka Salinen / who's now the conductor of that fabulus Disney concert hall in L.A. This recording he did is on a CD along with a selected body scores writen by B.Herrman. I have Almost all of his filmscores on CD. Most of these are on the Decca-mid line Re-issued . the recordings are Great !

[TechnoBIan]

Fantastic Scene!! Bravo!!

[TheVaughan5]

This is of course classic archive film of Hermann as conductor, but unusually not his own music but by a now forgotten Australian composer,Arthur Benjamin who comosed this specially for the film and it works really well for the suspense of this scene.

[BlueCougar]

@TheVaughan5 Actually, Benjamin wrote this piece for the original "Man Who Knew Too Much" from 1934. Hitchcock gave Herrmann the chance to write a completely new piece for the remake, but Herrmann chose to keep Benjamin's cantata and only re-orchestrated it.

[BlueCougar]

@TheVaughan5 Just for the fun, here's the (shorter) original 1934 version of the cantata: watch?v=BjA-mJwxNkQ#t=54m17s

[TheVaughan5]

@BlueCougar Thanks for that Blue Cougar, I had forgotten it was actually written for the earlier film and not the remake, Hermann obviously had respect for the piece -had he not retained it, by now it would be totally forgotten

[poetcomic1]

I love the slovenly girl in the strange yellow dress who is with the assassin and reading the music. She hides behind the curtain near the climax and the light falls on just her lower abdomen we see her hyperventilating! It adds an extra layer of dread.

[Enneise]

Tout l'immense talent du maître, Alfred Hitchcock !!!

Et bravo aux acteurs et à Bernard Herrmann !!!

[Enneise]

Presque irréel à force de beauté !!!

[wham13456]

i cant watch it theres an ad on it

[TheVaughan5]

I loved this film when I was a kid, now I think it's too full of cliches as is really very weak but still provides light entertainment. This sequence is the most interesting in the movie.

[TechnoBIan]

It's the scream that saves us all

[t3331157]

AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER REPRESENT

[schallrd1]

That is the maestro Bernard Herrmann himself conducting in Hitchcock's movie.

[elpresidio]

BRILLIANT!

[Jam5bam]

my school is doing this it should be fun.

[CutandPrintFilms]

My favorite Hitchcock picture.

[marc2789]

Unforgeatable movie! MASTERPIECE.

[UtterlyMoot]

if it was anyone OTHER than jimmy stewart running around opening doors, they woulda been on time :P

*fumbles with door nob, locked, tries to open door anyway..*

[GAndreiev]

@UtterlyMoot That really is the point. Stewart is an ordinary man thrown into this nightmare world of spies and assassins. He's going to be like one of us, fumbling, with only seconds to catch the killer. If he was suave and everything like James Bond, or the nightclubbing Heineken beer guy, it would lose suspense.

[Elfinesmom]

Geez. I can haz Cinematic masterpiece?

[slightlygrouchy]

This scene is awesome. Thanks so much for posting it. Btw. that choir is HUGE.