The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a somewhat altered remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcocks 1934 film of the same name.

An American familyDr. Benjamin Ben McKenna James Stewart, his wife, popular singer Josephine Conway Jo McKenna Doris Day, and their son Henry Hank McKenna Christopher Olsenare vacationing in Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard Daniel Gelin, who seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers and thinks that he is hiding something. Louis offers to take the McKennas out to dinner but cancels when a sinisterlooking man knocks at the McKennas hotelroom door claiming to be looking for another guests room. Later, at a local restaurant, the McKennas meet English couple Lucy Brenda De Banzie and Edward Drayton Bernard Miles, who strike up a conversation with the McKennas, who are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit at another table apparently ignoring them.The next day, exploring a busy outdoor market in Marrakesh with the Draytons, the McKennas see a man in Arab clothing 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 very soon and that Ben must tell the authorities there about Ambrose Chappell. 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. While at the police station, Ben receives a phone call from a mysterious man who informs him that Hank has been kidnapped but will not be harmed if the McKennas say nothing to the police about Bernards last words. ........

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