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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
U.S., 1956
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by John Michael Hayes
Story by Charles Bennett, D. B. Wyndham-Lewis
Starring James Stewart, Doris Day
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Approx. 120 min.
“Que sera, sera—whatever will be, will be,” warbles Doris Day, but little does she know that a Marrakesh vacation with hubby James Stewart will lead to kidnapping, murder, and a classically nerve-shredding race with a cymbalist—under composer Bernard Herrmann’s baton—in London’s Albert Hall.
Reviews
“Let us love Hitchcock when, weary of passing simply for a master of taut style, he takes us the longest way round.”
– Jean-Luc Godard, Cahiers du Cinéma
“Even in mammoth VistaVision, the old Hitchcock thriller-stuff has punch.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times