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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense | Thriller

Overview

A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

Rated PG | Length 120 minutes

Actors

James Stewart | Doris Day | Brenda De Banzie | Bernard Miles | Ralph Truman | Daniel GĂ©lin | Mogens Wieth | Alan Mowbray | Hillary Brooke | Christopher Olsen | Reggie Nalder | Richard Wattis | Noel Willman | Alix Talton | Yves Brainville | Carolyn Jones | Bernard Herrmann | Covent Garden Chorus | Barbara Howitt | Patrick Aherne | Frank Albertson | Frank Atkinson | John Barrard | Mayne Lynton | Clifford Buckton | Walter Bacon | Lovyss Bradley | Nora Bush | Ann Kunde | Jean Ransome | Albert Carrier | Louis Mercier | Anthony Warde | Frank Baker | Oliver Cross | Sam Harris | Jimmie Horan | Carl M. Leviness | Lee Miller | Arthur Tovey | Harry Fine | Alex Frazer | Wolf Frees | Richard Marner | Milton Frome | Walter Gotell | Leo Gordon | Alfred Hitchcock | Gladys Holland | George Howe | Richard Wordsworth | Eumenio Blanco | Allen Jaffe | Lou Krugman | Harold Kasket | Barry Keegan | Lloyd Lamble | Lewis Martin | Ralph Neff | John O'Malley | Eric Snowden | Patrick Whyte | Alma Taylor | Guy Verney | Peter Williams | John Marshall | Alexis Bobrinskoy | Betty Baskcomb | Hyma Beckley | Paul Beradi | Arline Bletcher | Janet Bruce | Naida Buckingham | Barbara Burke | Peter Camlin | Jimmy Charters | Abdelhaq Chraibi | Victor Harrington | George Hilsdon | Philip Johns | Barbara Jones | Anthony Lang | Donald Lawton | Marion Lessing | Enid Lindsey | Janet Macfarlane | Edward Manouk | Lola Morice | Leslie Newport | Elsa Palmer | Liddell Peddieson | Pauline Pfarr | Arthur Ridley | Lucile Sewall | Mahin S. Shahrivar | Guy Standeven | Allen Zeidman

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
07/29/2017Home TheaterBlu-rayOwned7 stars
 

Viewing Notes

A remake of Hitchcock’s own movie with enough different to keep it interesting. Overall I prefer the original with the great Peter Lorre but if you could take the first portion of the 1956 version and marry it to the second half of the 1934 original you’d have a pretty great movie.

It’s also hard to ignore the casual sexism and racism embedded in this version (“you speak arab!” and the use of brownface in particular) especially when it involves an actor like James Stewart who feels like the distillation of the “wholesome” all-American character. I suppose for the mid-fifties racism and sexism were all-American.

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