The Man Who Knew Too Much
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes, Charles Bennett
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American mystery thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. It is a remake of Hitchcock's own 1934 film of the same name, with a similar but significantly altered plot.
Trivia
- Based on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock).
- Alfred Hitchcock first considered an American remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1941, but only brought back the idea in 1956 to make a film that would fulfill a contractual demand from Paramount Pictures.
- The studio agreed it was a picture that could be well-adapted to the new decade.
- The Royal Albert Hall sequence drew some inspiration from H. M. Bateman's comic "The One-Note Man", which followed the daily life of a musician who plays only one note in a symphony, similar to the cymbal player in the film.
Filming Locations
- Morocco
- Marrakech
Previous Showings
8 Runs • 6 Festivals
Original Billings: 1 run (June 14, 1956)
Original Run: June 14, 1956 (Thursday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (8):
- June 14, 1956 (Thursday - Wednesday)James Stewart, Doris Day
- February 29 - March 3, 2008HITCHCOCK: Ten Weeks of the films of the Master of Suspensew/ Rear Window
- October 18 - 19, 200920th Anniversary Festivalw/ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- March 14 - 17, 2013Hitchcock 2013w/ The Wrong Man
- June 1 - 3, 2018Hitchcock and Other Masters of Suspense plus, Frankenstein at 200w/ North by Northwest
- April 19 - 21, 2019Doris Day Festivalw/ Young at Heart
- May 24 - 26, 2019Doris Day Festivalw/ Rear Window
- May 16 - 19, 2024Hitchcock, The Master of Suspensew/ Vertigo