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Whatever Will Be – The Man Who Knew Too Much
Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith discuss how a vacationing American family stumbles into international intrigue in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, where a kidnapped son becomes less a portrait of family life than the perfect Hitchcock MacGuffin—revealing an uneasy marriage, a precocious child repeating the language of empire, and a mother whose voice ultimately saves the day.
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