...This chapter examines the seven thrillers created by Hitchcock in Britain just before he left for America: The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young and Innocent, The Lady Vanishes, and Jamaica Inn. These thrillers established his...

...The 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the only film Alfred Hitchcock ever revisited, elucidates what is perhaps a unique gesture of solidarity and sympathy with the social status of the American woman as wife and mother in the 1950s. The key to understanding this film lies...

...Megan Carrigy, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) In: One Shot Hitchcock. Edited by: Luke Robinson and Melanie Robson, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197682876.003.0011 “The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956...

... to eight and adjusting a few bits of dialogue, reflecting both the gradual weakening of the Code and the director’s increasing skill in dealing with censorship. Albert Hall Bernstein Sidney Day Doris De Banzie Brenda Man Who Knew Too Much The 1956 Miles Bernard Paramount Studios Stewart James...

...While Herrmann's twenty-four successful and one failed collaboration with Hitchcock – including films and television programs – featured compositional scoring to some degree, Herrmann's work on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is a peculiar deviation in the pattern of their regular...