The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much, motion picture about an American couple who become entangled in an assassination plot while travelling in Africa. Released in 1956, this film is Alfred Hitchcock’s remake of his 1934 film of the same name. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans earned an Academy Award for their song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera).” When Dr. Ben McKenna (played by Jimmy Stewart) and his wife Jo (Doris Day) learn about an assassination plot from a dying man, the assassins kidnap their son to keep them quiet.

Director

• Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

• Jimmy Stewart (Dr. Ben McKenna)
• Doris Day (Jo McKenna)
• Brenda de Banzie (Mrs. Drayton)
• Bernard Miles (Mr. Drayton)
• Ralph Truman (Buchanan)
• Daniel Gélin (Louis Bernard)
• Mogens Wieth (Ambassador)
• Alan Mowbray (Val Parnell)
• Hillary Brooke (Jan Peterson)
• Christopher Olsen (Hank McKenna)
• Reggie Nalder (Rien the assassin)
• Richard Wattis (Assistant manager)
• Noel Willman (Woburn)
• Alix Talton (Helen Parnell)
• Yves Brainville (Police inspector)
• Carolyn Jones (Cindy Fontaine)
• Abdelhaq Chraibi (Arab)
• Lou Krugman (Arab)
• Betty Baskcomb (Edna)
• Leo Gordon (Chauffeur)
• Pat Aherne (English handyman)
• Louis Mercier (French police officer)
• Anthony Warde (French police officer)
• Lewis Martin (Detective)
• Gladys Holland (Bernard's girlfriend)
• John O'Malley (Uniformed attendant)
• Peter Camlin (Headwaiter)
• Albert Carrier (French police officer)
• Ralph Heff (Henchman)
• John Marshall (Butler)
• Eric Snowden (Special branch officer)
• Edward Manouk (French waiter)
• Donald Lawton (Desk clerk)
• Patrick Whyte (Special branch officer)
• Mahin S. Shahrivar (Arab woman)
• Alex Frazer (Man)
• Allen Zeidman (Assistant manager)
• Milton Frome (Guard)
• Walter Gotell (Guard)
• Frank Atkinson (Workers in taxidermist shop)
• Liddell Peddieson (Workers in taxidermist shop)
• Mayne Lynton (Workers in taxidermist shop)
• John Barrard (Workers in taxidermist shop)
• Alexis Bobrinskoy (Foreign prime minister)
• Janet Bruce (Box office woman)
• Naida Buckingham (Lady in the audience)
• Clifford Buckton (Sir Kenneth Clarke)
• Barbara Burke (Girlfriend of the assassin)
• Pauline Farr (Ambassador's wife)
• Harry Fine (Edington)
• Wolfgang Preiss (Aide to foreign prime minister)
• George Howe (Ambrose Chappell, Sr.)
• Harold Kasket (Butler)
• Barry Keegan (Patterson)
• Lloyd Lamble (General manager of Albert Hall)
• Enid Lindsey (Lady Clarke)
• Janet Macfarlane (Lady in audience)
• Leslie Newport (Inspector at Albert Hall)
• Elsa Palmer (Woman cook)
• Arthur Ridley (Ticket collector)
• Alma Taylor (Box office woman)
• Guy Verney (Footman)
• Peter Williams (Police sergeant)
• Richard Wordsworth (Ambrose Chappell, Jr.)

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Song (1956): Jay Livingston—Music & Lyrics, Ray Evans—Music & Lyrics, “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)”

Quote

• Line from movie poster: “A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!”