The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)






A widescreen, Technicolor remake of Hitchcock's own 1934 film of the same title starring James Stewart and Doris Day. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When their son is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 3476

Books with substantial mentioning of The Man Who Knew Too Much

Robert J. Yanal
Hitchcock as philosopher
Jefferson, N.C., 2005

Alan G. Fetrow
Feature Films, 1950 - 1959, a United States Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Christopher Young
The Films of Doris Day
Secaucus, N.J., 1977

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Books with an entry on The Man Who Knew Too Much

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Articles on The Man Who Knew Too Much

Murray Pomerance, Portentous arrangements: Bernard Herrmann and The Man Who Knew Too Much, in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017

Alan Nadel, Colonial Discourse and the Unheard Other in Washington Square and The Man Who Knew Too Much, in: Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel (eds.), The Men Who Knew Too Much, New York, 2012