The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 120m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Bernard Miles
Synopsis:
While holidaying in Morocco, an American couple learn of a plot to assassinate an important personage in London, and their son is kidnapped to secure their silence.
Review:
Hitchcock chose to remake his own earlier success the same year Cecil B. De Mille did his, presumably because he liked the story of an innocent man caught up in great events, although it is but a variation on a dozen or so other pictures, including The Wrong Man and North by Northwest. He makes a number of changes to the original, apart from the two evident in the above synopsis, but they are minor, and in the case of the blue dye somewhat mystifying (apparently Gelin was originally to have run through a dye market). In sum what you have here is colour, Jimmy Stewart and Bernard Herrmann, but on the other hand you also get Doris Day singing Qué será será. The original is better.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 120m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Bernard Miles
Synopsis:
While holidaying in Morocco, an American couple learn of a plot to assassinate an important personage in London, and their son is kidnapped to secure their silence.
Review:
Hitchcock chose to remake his own earlier success the same year Cecil B. De Mille did his, presumably because he liked the story of an innocent man caught up in great events, although it is but a variation on a dozen or so other pictures, including The Wrong Man and North by Northwest. He makes a number of changes to the original, apart from the two evident in the above synopsis, but they are minor, and in the case of the blue dye somewhat mystifying (apparently Gelin was originally to have run through a dye market). In sum what you have here is colour, Jimmy Stewart and Bernard Herrmann, but on the other hand you also get Doris Day singing Qué será será. The original is better.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 120m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Bernard Miles
Synopsis:
While holidaying in Morocco, an American couple learn of a plot to assassinate an important personage in London, and their son is kidnapped to secure their silence.
Review:
Hitchcock chose to remake his own earlier success the same year Cecil B. De Mille did his, presumably because he liked the story of an innocent man caught up in great events, although it is but a variation on a dozen or so other pictures, including The Wrong Man and North by Northwest. He makes a number of changes to the original, apart from the two evident in the above synopsis, but they are minor, and in the case of the blue dye somewhat mystifying (apparently Gelin was originally to have run through a dye market). In sum what you have here is colour, Jimmy Stewart and Bernard Herrmann, but on the other hand you also get Doris Day singing Qué será será. The original is better.