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The Man Who Knew Too Much Overview:

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) was a Adventure - Mystery Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and Herbert Coleman.

SYNOPSIS

Twenty-two years after his earlier version of this story of a family's accidental involvement in a political assassination plot, Hitchcock case Stewart and Day in the leads as an American doctor and his retired-singer wife. Shot in color and on location, this entertaining thriller moves swiftly to its justly famous climax at a concert of Arthur Benjamin's Storm Clouds cantata at London's Albert Hall. It is fascinating to compare the two film versions, which are sometimes identical in shot composition and action. For the most part, the second version is the superior production, blessed with a fine cast and a superb score by Herrmann (who makes his only film cameo as the concert conductor).

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1956 --- Ceremony Number 29 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - SongMusic and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray EvansWon
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The Man Who Knew Too Much BlogHub Articles:

Doris Day and James Stewart as “The Man Who Knew Too Much”

By Stephen Reginald on Jul 16, 2024 From Classic Movie Man

Doris Day and James Stewart as “The Man Who Knew Too Much” The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is an American mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Other members of the cast include Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gelin, and Hil... Read full article

The Directors' Chair: The Man Who Knew Too Much

By Theresa Brown on Jul 31, 2020 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

"THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH" ( 1956 ) ~ QUE SERA SERA “Why would he pick me out to tell?” Why? Because you’re the affable, all-American James Stewart, that’s why. I’ve no real clue why Stewart’s picked, other than he’s a great foil to get pushed around by Hitchcock and... Read full article

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 28, 2018 From 4 Star Films

Although Hitchcock did many riffs off the same themes, he very rarely tried to do the same film twice over. The Man Who Knew Too Much might be the one exception and even then if you place these two thrillers from 1934 and 1956 up next to each other, they’re similarities are fairly nominal. The... Read full article

ClassicFlix (Teen Scene): The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

By Virginie Pronovost on Jun 27, 2017 From The Wonderful World of Cinema

From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the instauration of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read... Read full article

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

on Apr 24, 2017 From Journeys in Classic Film

Last year I reviewed the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) starring James Stewart and Doris Day. I wasn’t in love with it, but Day was solid and the sweeping cinematography captivated me. During the recent TCM Classic Film Festival I was able to watch the original installm... Read full article

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The Man Who Knew Too Much Quotes:

Dr. Ben McKenna: Sorry we were gone so long, but we had to pick up Hank!
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The Man Who Knew Too Much Facts
In 1965, Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart filed a $4,000,000 lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, arguing that their eight-year agreement with the studio had ended and that Paramount had breached their copyright by televising the film. The director and actor also requested that Paramount return the film's original negative to them. The final disposition of this suit has not been made public, but the film remained unavailable for commercial exhibition for many years.
Alfred Hitchcock: [stairs] Big scene on the stairs at the end.
Bernard Herrmann (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting the orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
On the poster play bill, we can see the date of the Albert Hall concert : Monday 6 June at 8. So the action takes place in 1955, year of the shooting of the film, when June the 6th was a Monday (1949 had the same calendar but is not likely). And the movie is supposed to begin on Saturday, June the 4th and finish on Monday, June the 6th 1955.
When Doris Day traveled to London to film some of the location scenes for this film, she was so popular with the British that when she arrived at her hotel, mobs of fans who had gotten word that she would be staying there had gathered. Pandemonium erupted when they saw her, and she needed a police escort to get in. Fans continued to surround the hotel, camping out, shouting her name, asking for autographs and hoping for a chance to see her. The hotel management finally had to ask her to leave.
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