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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Name: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: drama film, film noir, crime film
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 7.4

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Robert Burks · Cut by George Tomasini · Music by Bernard Herrmann · 120 min

How it was made

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes was hired on condition he never watch Hitchcock's original 1934 version or read its script, working instead only from a verbal briefing; just the opening pages were ready when filming began, and Hayes had to airmail the rest of the script to the set as he wrote it.
Composer Bernard Herrmann declined to write a new cantata for the Royal Albert Hall climax, judging Arthur Benjamin's original 1934 Storm Clouds Cantata so effective that he instead expanded its orchestration and added repeats to lengthen the sequence.
The Royal Albert Hall sequence runs twelve minutes without dialogue, building from the start of the cantata to Doris Day's scream at the climax.
Herrmann appears on screen conducting the London Symphony Orchestra during the Royal Albert Hall scenes.

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1956) with James Stewart and Doris Day — Serious Feather · 22 min

Elsewhere

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

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