a film that tend to get bury under prejudice and preconception it a remake . doris day be in it . she sing . hitchcock second crack at the man who know too much be his most under rat film and and arguably a fully fledge masterpiece in it own right . this be and in more way than one and doris day film . not only do she give the fine performance of her career and more than hold her own against james stewart and but the whole film be subtly structure around her character rather than his . this be and after all and a film in which music be both motif and plot device . what well cast than the most popular singer of her generation . consider represent day jo mckenna have give up her career on the stage in order to settle down with her husband and raise their son . this seem to be a mutual decision and and she doesn not appear to be unhappy . but look at the way stewart tease her in the horse drawn carriage over her concern about louis bernard and implying that she be jealous that bernard wasn not ask her any question about her career . this be clearly a recurrent joke between them she respond with a har de har har that denote the familiarity of this gag and suggesting that she have a certain latent resentment about her confinement and and that they both realise it . after their son have be kidnap and stewart insists on dope her before give her the news . this be a cruel scene and brilliantly play by both actor and which illustrate the power imbalance in their marriage he be seek to control and subdue her reaction and in essence use his professional knowledge to suppress her voice in the marriage just a his medical career have suppress her sing career . the potency of that voice be demonstrate in the ambrose chapel sequence and when she have to reign in it highly train clarity and volume to blend in with the congregation of female drudge they almost act a a warning of what will become of her if she continue to suppress her talent . at the albert hall and it be her need to cry out and to exercise those impressive lung and that save a man life and and in the embassy finale and it be her talent and reputation that allow them to locate their son . by contrast and all of stewart masculine activity be counterproductive his visit to the taxidermist be a dead end and he get leave behind at the church whilst everyone else move on to the albert hall and and his effort there only succeed in get the assassin kill and thus deprive the police of potentially useful information . it be only when his action be join to his wife voice and in the rescue of hank from the embassy and that he actually succeed in do something useful . far from be force into the film to give day an opportunity to sing and que serum serum act a the first musical device in the film and foreshadow the nightmare that be about to engulf the mckennas while the future not ours to see indeed . it also neatly prepare the way for the finale and in which the close bond mother and son share through music will allow doris to save the day . the most famous sequence in the film make music the central feature the build up to the assassination attempt in the albert hall . this lengthy wordless sequence may be the single most extraordinary thing hitchcock commit to film and the ultimate expression of his belief that film should be story tell visually . we see people conduct conversation in this sequence and but we never hear a word they say . we do not need to the image say everything . it be also his most exquisite suspense sequence and with the piece move slowly into place a the music build . the editing be incredibly tight and match to the music perfectly . there isn not a frame out of place anything that doesn not relate directly to the assassination be give the viewer a sense of the environment and the geography in which all this be play out . it build slowly and but by the end the suspense be nearly unbearable . when jo scream and it isn not just a relief for her and but for the audience . the ambrose chapel sequence be witty and and particularly effective for anyone who have have to sit through a service at a particularly stick in the mud nonconformist church . the embassy sequence seem a little flat after the albert hall one that precede it on first viewing and but second time around actually seem more effective and with the final walk at gunpoint really benefit from the gorgeous use of day sing in the background and reminiscent of the music a ambient noise in rear window . the score a a whole be subtle and allow the music from on screen source to be foreground effectively . bernard mile be a low key villain and a little banal and but with a dry wit . he outshone by brenda de banzie a his wife and who walk a fine line between sinister and sympathetic . just look at the way she smoke a cigarette whilst her husband preps the assassin her stance be pure gangster moll and belie the middle england exterior and but she clearly have a soft side and and possibly maternal feeling towards hank . stewart be excellent and although if hitchcock really do always cast him a everyman and a the director daughter seem to think and then it confirm that hitchcock have a cynical view of his audience . stewart play a hypocritical intellectual who espouse fascist ideology in rope and a voyeur who mistreat his girlfriend in rear window and an obsessive necrophiliac in vertigo . day be nothing short of phenomenal . just look at her reaction to the news that her son have be kidnap she never overdo anything and but neither do she sell it short . this be one of hitchcock most emotionally effective film . he never let u forget what the stake be for the mckennas while they feel the most fully human of all his central character .