i will have to admit that i be at a disadvantage here while when i learn more about a film from other reviewer than from watch it myself and then that a problem . although the plot of the man who know too much seem generally straightforward and the movie allow too many cryptic element to get in the way of what could have be a satisfying mystery . by the time we get to the scene where a witchy look woman establish the secrecy of the first degree of the seven fold ray and i do not know whether to laugh or rewind to see if i miss something . in retrospect and the cryptic note retrieve by mr. lawrence ( leslie bank ) from the handle of a shave brush be a craftily write message and lead to a dentist name barbor and and eventually to the albert hall and a place and not a person a indicate by a. hall . but for all the intrigue and it never make clear why the assassination target be be eliminate . okay and so louis bernard be kill because he know of a plot to assassinate a diplomat name ropa and but why be ropa a target . come to think of it and why be the note even write and secure in the shaving brush . do bernard have to refer to it every now and then to remind himself what be go to happen . with it disjoint scene and the man who know too much be hard to follow and a bit disorienting and however i will give alfred hitchcock credit for this early effort . for perspective and i will have to watch some of his other work of the same era and though this movie certainly can not hold a candle to his late work like psycho or north by northwest .