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Name: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Released: 1956-7-1
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Daniel Gelin, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles

The Man Who Knew Too Much

PG
2h 0m
1955

88%

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James Stewart and Doris Day give magnificent performances as Ben and Jo McKenna, an American couple vacationing in Morocco, whose son is kidnapped and taken to England. Caught up in international espionage, the McKennas' lives hang in the balance as they race to save their son in the chilling, climactic showdown in London's famous Royal Albert Hall.

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer:

Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:

John Michael Hayes

Cast:

James Stewart, Doris Day, Daniel Gelin, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Mogens Wieth, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke, Carolyn Jones

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Critics Consensus: Remaking his own 1934 film, Hitchcock imbues The Man Who Knew Too Much with picturesque locales and international intrigue, and is helped by a brilliantly befuddled performance from James Stewart.

Reviews

Hartford Courant

M. Oakley Christoph

Like all Hitchcock's plays the sudden twists are what make it filled with suspense and terror. Set abroad, from Morocco to London, and in color it is something to see.

On the whole, The Man Who Knew Too Much is a dandy of its popular kind.

Hitchcock made the same picture in 1935, before he came to this country, but that should deter nobody. The story has been brought quite up to date, dressed in Vista Vision and color, and starts in Marrakesh.

Let us love Hitchcock when, weary of passing simply for a master of taut style, he takes us the longest way round.

Instead of using music as a background for action, Hitchcock moves it up front... The chief drawback of these musical stage-waits is that they allow the audience to think back over the story and conclude that it doesn't make much sense.

April 28, 2020

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