The Man Who Knew Too Much (1. Overview. International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
While on an extended European vacation following a medical conference in Paris, American physician Ben Mc. Kenna and his family are traveling on a bus in French Morocco when his young son Hank accidentally pulls the veil off a Moslem woman. An international incident is avoided when Louis Bernard, a Frenchman, intercedes on the Mc. Kennas' behalf. While Ben is happy to tell Louis all about his family and their planned excursions in Marrakech, his wife Jo is suspicious of the Frenchman's constant questioning. That night, Louis meets the Mc. Kennas in their hotel room for dinner, but suddenly cancels their supper plans when Rien, a hired assassin, appears at the Mc.
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Kennas' door. Later, at an Arab restaurant, Ben and Jo meet a British couple, the Draytons, who claim to be fans of Jo, who was a well- known singer prior to her marriage to Ben. The next morning, the Mc. Kennas and Draytons meet at the local marketplace. The usual frivolity of the market crowd is broken when a man being chased by the police collapses in Ben's arms, having been fatally stabbed in the back.
It is Louis, disguised as an Arab, who, with his dying breaths, tells the physician that there is a plot to assassinate an unnamed statesman in London. While the Mc. Kennas are taken to the police station for questioning, Mrs.
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Drayton agrees to care for Hank in their absence. In the midst of being interrogated, Ben receives a phone call from a kidnapper, threatening his son with grievous harm if he tells the authorities what Louis said to him. After giving the high- strung Jo a sedative, Ben informs his wife that their only son has been abducted. Aware that the Draytons left Marrakech on a private plane, Ben and Jo decide to go to London and search for Hank there. Greeted at the airport by both Jo's fans and the police, the Mc.
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Kennas are interviewed by Inspector Buchanan of Scotland Yard, who tells them that he is well aware of the reason why their son was kidnapped. Despite his wife's pleas, Ben refuses to tell the inspector what Louis said to him, claiming that the British secret agent had spoken to him in French. Jo then receives a phone call from Mrs. Drayton, who allows the Mc.
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Kennas to briefly speak to Hank. Checking into a London hotel, the Mc. Kennas attempt to call Ambrose Chappell, the name Louis told Ben, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Jo's old acquaintances: Val and Helen Parnell, Jan Peterson and Cindy Fontaine. While Jo stays behind with her friends, Ben sneaks out through the hotel's service entrance to meet Chappell. At the Ambrose taxidermy shop, Ben is slow to realize that neither Ambrose Sr. Meanwhile, at the hotel, Jo realizes that . Inside the church, Hank is being held captive by the Draytons, with the help of their assistant, Edna.
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Also there is Rien, who is being instructed by the Draytons as to the exact moment during an Albert Hall concert that he is to commit the assassination: at a climactic cymbal crash in the performance of a cantata. The Mc. Kennas enter the chapel just as the service, administered by Mr. Drayton, is about to begin.
While Ben stays inside, Jo leaves to call the police, so the Draytons cut short the service. Hearing his son's voice, Ben rushes to Hank's aid, only to be knocked unconscious by one of Draytons' henchmen.
By the time the police arrive at the chapel, the Draytons have made their escape with Hank. Refusing to enter the locked church without a search warrant, the police leave, so Jo calls the police station, begging for help. She asks to speak to Buchanan, but is told that he is at an important diplomatic function at a concert at Albert Hall. When the policeman refuses to contact Buchanan, she heads off alone to Albert Hall to find him.
When Rien sees her there, the assassin reminds Jo that Hank's safety depends on her silence. Meanwhile, Ben escapes the locked chapel by climbing the church bell's rope and also makes his way to the concert.
Realizing that Rien is about to shoot a visiting foreign prime minister, Jo screams, causing the startled assassin to merely wound the dignitary in the arm. Ben then jumps Rien, and in his attempt to escape, the assassin falls from the balcony to his death.
Back at the embassy, the Draytons are informed by the ambassador that their assassination attempt on the prime minister has failed. Drayton's objection, the ambassador then orders her husband to kill Hank.
With the police unable to go into the embassy due to diplomatic immunity, the Mc. Kennas enter alone, as the invited guest of the grateful prime minister. Jo is asked to perform for the guests, and her singing voice is soon recognized by Hank.
Drayton's instruction, the young boy whistles along with her singing, guiding Ben to the room in which his son is being held. Drayton then appears, but rather than killing them, he decides to use Ben and Hank as human shields during his escape from the embassy. As they make their way down the grand staircase, Ben pushes Drayton, and the spy is killed when he falls on his own gun. The reunited Mc. Kennas then head back to their hotel room, where Jo's friends have been waiting the entire time.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1. Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a somewhat altered remake in widescreen Vista.
Vision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's 1. In the book- length interview Hitchcock/Truffaut (1.
Fran. It premiered at the 1. Cannes Film Festival, on April 2. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin).
He seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers. Louis offers to take the Mc. Kennas out to dinner, but cancels when a sinister- looking man knocks at the Mc. Kennas' hotel- room door. Later, at a local restaurant, the Mc. Kennas meet friendly English couple Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) and Edward Drayton (Bernard Miles). The Mc. Kennas are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit at another table, apparently ignoring them.
The next day, attending a busy outdoor market with the Draytons, the Mc. Kennas see a man being chased by police. After being stabbed in the back, the man approaches Ben, who discovers it is actually Louis in disguise. The dying Bernard whispers that a foreign statesman will be assassinated in London soon, and that Ben must tell the authorities there about . Lucy offers to return Hank to the hotel while the police question Ben and Jo. An officer explains that Louis was a French Intelligence agent on assignment in Morocco.
Ben is told via a phone call that Hank has been kidnapped but will not be harmed if the Mc. Kennas say nothing to the police about Bernard's warning. In London, Scotland Yard's Inspector Buchanan (Ralph Truman) tells them Louis was trying to uncover an assassination plot, and that they should contact him if they hear from the kidnappers. Leaving friends in their hotel suite, the Mc.
Kennas search for a man named . Ben confronts Drayton and is knocked out and locked in the chapel. The Draytons take Hank to a foreign embassy just before Jo arrives with police at the now- deserted chapel. Jo learns that Buchanan has gone to a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. There, she sees the sinister man who came to her door in Morocco. When he threatens to harm Hank if she interferes, she realizes that he is the assassin sent to kill the foreign Prime Minister (Alexis Bobrinskoy) at the concert. Ben escapes and follows Jo to the Hall, where she points out the assassin.
Ben searches the balcony boxes for the killer, who is waiting for a cymbal crash to mask his gunshot. Jo screams and the assassin misses his mark, merely wounding his target. Ben struggles with the would- be killer, who falls to his death from the balcony.
The grateful Prime Minister invites the Mc. Kennas to the embassy, where they learn that the Draytons and Hank are also there. The ambassador (Mogens Wieth) himself organized the plot to kill the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister asks Jo to sing. Lucy is guarding Hank, but tells him to whistle along with the song, and Ben finds him. Drayton tries to escape with them at gunpoint, but when Ben hits him, he falls and dies accidentally. The Mc. Kennas return to their hotel room.
Ben explains to their now- sleeping friends, . In The Man Who Knew Too Much he can be seen 2. Moroccan marketplace, with his back to the camera, wearing a light gray suit, and putting his hands into his pockets, just before the spy is killed. Production. The studio agreed it was a picture that could be well- adapted to the new decade.
Screenwriter John Michael Hayes was hired on the condition that he would not watch the early version or read its script, with all the plot details coming from a briefing with Hitchcock. The director requested blonde Doris Day for the main female role as he liked her performance in Storm Warning, though associate producer Herbert Coleman was reluctant on Day, whom he only knew as a singer. Coleman strongly suggested that the more serious blonde actresses like Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, or Kim Novak be cast in the role, or a suitable brunette, like Jane Russell, Gene Tierney, or Ava Gardner. However, Day was eventually cast in the female lead. The film started its principal photography on location in Marrakesh, where the schedule had to be changed so the Marrakesh shoot did not coincide with Ramadan.
Once the external shoots were finished, the other interiors . The Albert Hall sequence drew some inspiration from H. In addition, Doris Day's character is a well- known, now retired, professional singer. At two points in the film, she sings the Livingston and Evans song . The song reached number two on the US pop charts. However, he found Arthur Benjamin's cantata Storm Clouds from the original 1. Herrmann can be seen conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and singers during the Royal Albert Hall scenes.
The sequence in Albert Hall runs for twelve minutes without any dialogue, from the beginning of Storm Clouds Cantata until the climax, when Doris Day's character screams. Filmed on a budget of $1. The 2. 00. 0 DVD includes a special documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with Hitchcock's daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, and members of the production crew.
The DVD and Blu- ray editions retain the original Vista. Vision aspect ratio, capturing the full widescreen impact of the film, with digitally restored images. See also. Retrieved August 1. Coe, Jonathan. Retrieved April 1. Retrieved February 4, 2.
Writing with Hitchcock. The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcok and John Michael Hayes. Faber and Faber, 2.
Hitchcock/Truffaut, p. Whitburn (1. 98. 7), p. Retrieved August 2. American Film Institute. Retrieved August 2. Turner Classic Movies.
Doris Day / The Man Who Knew Too Much * 1. Her popularity began to rise after her first hit recording, . After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long- lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1.
Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 2. In 1. 94. 8, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas. Over the course of her career, Day appeared in 3. She was ranked the biggest box- office star, the only woman on that list, for four years (1. She became the top- ranking female box- office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 1.
She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards (World Film Favorite), received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1. Cecil B. De. Mille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. Day made her last film in 1.
Day has released 3. Top 4. 0 charts. She has been awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2. 01. 1, she released her 2. My Heart, which debuted at No. UK Top 4. 0 charts.
As of January 2. 01. Day is the oldest living artist to score a UK Top 1. Her strong commitment to animal welfare began in 1. She started her own non- profit organization in the late 1. Doris Day Animal Foundation and, later, the Doris Day Animal League. Establishing the annual observance Spay Day USA in 1.
The Doris Day Animal League now partners with the Humane Society of the United States and continues to be a leading advocacy organization. In 2. 00. 4, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished service to the country. Day is retired from acting and performing, but has continued her work in animal rights causes and animal welfare. She currently lives in Carmel- by- the- Sea, California.***The Storm Clouds Cantata (or Storm Cloud Cantata) is a chorale by the Australian composer Arthur Benjamin.
This chorale was written for the assassination scene in the Alfred Hitchcock 1. The Man Who Knew Too Much, in the Royal Albert Hall. In the film version of 1. London Symphony Orchestra was directed by H. In the 1. 95. 6 version, however, the London Symphony Orchestra was conducted by the composer of new music for the remake of the film, Bernard Herrmann, and the chorus is the Covent Garden Opera Chorus with soloist Barbara Howitt.
The Cantata can be from eight to nine minutes long. It starts with a Lento in three- quarter time in C major.
The first half of the chorale is Lento, at 1. Then begins the Allegro agitato, characterized by rhythmic strokes of the timpani. The conclusion is very fast both in the chorus and in the orchestra.