Big Picture: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

For July, Big Picture is proud to bring you a selection of films that highlight the prolific director Alfred Hitchcock. Something new is revealed when you stand his movies up next to each other. His favorite themes and motifs gain depth. His creative development and willingness to experiment is made obvious. You can feel his fussy, finicky control over every frame grow, then strain, then dissipate. The Academy may never have committed to the idea that Alfred Hitchcock was the best director, but he was certainly one of the most directors — his body of work over more than 50 features influenced contemporary film (for better or worse) as much as any other single individual in history. We believe Big Picture is the perfect place to explore all sorts of film connections, and profiling individual artists is a nexus of one sort of connection. FILM SYNOPSIS: 2h / PG / Crime, Drama, Mystery In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the second film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock, American doctor Ben McKenna (James Stewart) has taken his family — wife Jo (Doris Day) and son Hank — to Morocco for a vacation, where they happen to make friends with a Frenchman named Louis and a nice English couple, the Draytons. But the next day, the two families run into Louis. Literally — Louis is fleeing the police, dressed in disguise, with a knife sticking out of his back. With his dying breath, he tells Ben that there will be an assassination in London and only he can stop it. Soon Ben and his family are embroiled in political intrigue that stretches across half the world and endangers everything they thought they knew.

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