The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!

120 min★ 7.4 · 77,157 votes

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Release date: April 29, 1956
Country of origin: United States
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Budget: $1,200,000
Box office: $11,300,000

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Cast

James Stewart as Dr. Benjamin McKenna
Doris Day as Josephine Conway McKenna
Brenda de Banzie as Lucy Drayton
Bernard Miles as Edward Drayton
Ralph Truman as Inspector Buchanan, Special Branch
Daniel Gélin as Louis Bernard
Mogens Wieth as Ambassador
Alan Mowbray as Val Parnell
Hillary Brooke as Jan Peterson
Christopher Olsen as Hank McKenna
Reggie Nalder as Rien
Richard Wattis as Assistant Manager
Noel Willman as Woburn
Alix Talton as Helen Parnell
Yves Brainville as Police Inspector
Carolyn Jones as Cindy Fontaine
Bernard Herrmann as Conductor at Albert Hall (uncredited)
Patrick Aherne as Handyman (uncredited)
Frank Albertson as Taxidermist (uncredited)
Frank Atkinson as Edgar (uncredited)
John Barrard as Taxidermist Holding Panther (uncredited)
Mayne Lynton as Grey-Haired Taxidermist (uncredited)
Clifford Buckton as Sir Kenneth Clarke (uncredited)
Walter Bacon as Church Member (uncredited)
Lovyss Bradley as Church Member (uncredited)
Nora Bush as Church Member (uncredited)
Anne Kunde as Church Member (uncredited)
Albert Carrier as French Policeman (uncredited)
Louis Mercier as French Policeman (uncredited)

Crew

Alfred Hitchcock · Director
John Michael Hayes · Writer
Charles Bennett · Writer
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis · Writer
Bernard Herrmann · Composer
Robert Burks · Cinematographer
George Tomasini · Editor