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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
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A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Director:Alfred Hitchcock |
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Brenda De Banzie | ... |
Lucy Drayton
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Bernard Miles | ... |
Edward Drayton
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Ralph Truman | ... |
Inspector Buchanan
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Louis Bernard
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Mogens Wieth | ... |
Ambassador
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Alan Mowbray | ... |
Val Parnell
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Hillary Brooke | ... |
Jan Peterson
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Christopher Olsen | ... |
Hank McKenna
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Reggie Nalder | ... |
Rien
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Richard Wattis | ... |
Assistant Manager
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Noel Willman | ... |
Woburn
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Alix Talton | ... |
Helen Parnell
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Yves Brainville | ... |
Police Inspector
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Storyline
While attending a medical conference in Paris, American physician Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, retired musical theater actress and singer Jo McKenna née Conway, and their adolescent son Hank McKenna decide to take a side trip to among other places Marrekesh, French Morocco. With a knife plunged into his back, Frenchman Louis Bernard, who the family met earlier in their bus ride into Marrakesh and who is now masquerading as an Arab, approaches Ben, cryptically whispering into Ben's ears that there will be an attempted assassination in London of a statesman, this news whispered just before Bernard dies. Ben is reluctant to provide any information of this news to the authorities because concurrently Hank is kidnapped by British couple, Edward and Lucy Drayton, who also befriended the McKennas in Marrakesh and who probably have taken Hank out of the country back to England. Whoever the... Written by Huggo
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Alfred Hitchcock strikes the highest note of suspense the screen has yet achieved! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
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Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much See more »Box Office
Budget:
$2,500,000 (estimated)Gross:
$10,250,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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1.50 : 1
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Hank McKenna: If you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails. We tried everything to get rid of them. We never thought of a Frenchman!
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Universal,the Paramount VistaVision fanfare is played over the opening
Universal logo. This is the way it is currently (2005) shown on television.
in the re-release version (1984). See more »
By Arthur Benjamin and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (as D. B. Wyndham-Lewis)
Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra (as London Symphony Orchestra)
Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
Covent Garden Chorus and Barbara Howitt, soloist See more »
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Trivia
In a 1994 interview available on the liner notes of a Rhino compilation of Oscar winning songs, songwriter 'Jay Livingstone' says that he came across the phrase "Que Sera Sera" in the movie The Barefoot Contessa, when Rossano Brazzi shows Ava Gardner his house, and she sees the inscription "Que Sera Sera" on the gate. He tells her that is the family motto, and it means 'Whatever will be, will be'. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: Although the assassin and the ambassador are seated in the same tier of boxes, the assassin's view of his target through the opera glasses is from below and not across. See more »Quotes
[to Louis Bernard]Hank McKenna: If you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails. We tried everything to get rid of them. We never thought of a Frenchman!
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Crazy Credits
Partly because the rights to this film were acquired from Paramount byUniversal,the Paramount VistaVision fanfare is played over the opening
Universal logo. This is the way it is currently (2005) shown on television.
in the re-release version (1984). See more »
Soundtracks
"Storm Cloud Cantata"By Arthur Benjamin and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (as D. B. Wyndham-Lewis)
Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra (as London Symphony Orchestra)
Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
Covent Garden Chorus and Barbara Howitt, soloist See more »
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