The Man Who Knew Too Much

While attending a medical conference in Paris, American physician Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, retired musical theater actress and singer Jo McKenna née Conway, and their adolescent son Hank McKenna decide to take a side trip to among other places Marrekesh, French Morocco. With a knife plunged into his back, Frenchman Louis Bernard, who the family met earlier in their bus ride into Marrakesh and who is now masquerading as an Arab, approaches Ben, cryptically whispering into Ben s ears that there will be an attempted assassination in London of a statesman, this news whispered just before Bernard dies. Ben is reluctant to provide any information of this news to the authorities because concurrently Hank is kidnapped by British couple, Edward and Lucy Drayton, who also befriended the McKennas in Marrakesh and who probably have taken Hank out of the country back to England. Whoever the unknown people the Draytons are working for have threatened to kill Hank if Ben divulges any information told to him by Bernard. With what little information they have on hand, Ben and Jo head to London to try and thwart the assassination attempt and importantly find an alive and safe Hank. Scotland Yard is aware of some pieces to the puzzle, including the fact that Bernard was a French secret service agent and that there will be an assassination attempt on someone. They and the McKennas will have to work together as they hit a diplomatic roadblock, one that may be overcome with a special Jo Conway song. Written by Huggo The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American English-language Drama Thriller film featuring James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Christopher Olsen, Daniel G Lin and Allen Zeidman. Filwite Productions in association with Inc. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Alfred Hitchcock. The movie is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The Man Who Knew Too Much was released on 1st June 1956 and takes a screen time of 120 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The Man Who Knew Too Much was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by John Michael Hayes. Cinematography was done by Robert Burks and editing by George Tomasini. The music was composed by Bernard Herrmann. At the 1957 Oscar Awards It won an award for Best Music, Original Song.
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