THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)
Special Features: 4K Restoration | AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs | Intro by film historian Steven C. Smith on Feb. 1. Smith's latest book “Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema” will be available for sale and signing.
Hitchcock’s remake of his 1934 classic thriller swaps Brits in Switzerland for Americans in North Africa, with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocents abroad who become embroiled in international intrigue, then have their only child kidnapped to keep them quiet. Day, playing a former singer who gave up the stage for her family, gets to show off her pipes in a major plot point. (She hated “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera),” but could not shake it after it won the Academy Award® for Best Original Song.) Clever trick photography was used in the 1934 version’s bravura climax at the Royal Albert Hall; for this 1956 version, the star director was actually able to film on location, with composer Bernard Herrmann cameoing as the conductor in his only on-screen appearance. DIR Alfred Hitchcock; SCR John Michael Hayes, from the 1934 film, screenplay by Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis. U.S., 1956, color, 120 min. RATED PG
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, February 01, 2026
Genre: Mystery thriller
Book Signing
Introduction