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Dec 07, 2017Onewhoissaved rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
My mother took me to see this film when I was 9-years-old. I loved it. But now I see it through older eyes and am just okay with the film. Frankly the plot is stricly Hitchcockian. That means to suspend our better sense and logic and let the man with the misshaped body and head to direct us for a few hours. Frankly, I don't see the McKenna family vacationing in Morocco, have their son kidnapped, keep it from the police, go to England with the idea that they can retrieve their son with none of them getting hurt. Personally I liked the original film from 1934 where Peter Lorre made his debut to the film world. Lorre didn't speak English and had to memorize all of his lines for the film. The Stewart/Day film takes place in 1955 and has no standout personality playing the bad guy. Without the bad guy there is no real drama.