When will Alfred Hitchcock air his show the man who knew too much?”
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Frank Vosper, Peter Lorre, Hugh Wakefield The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the international “breakthrough” film for British director Alfred Hitchcock, transforming him from merely a talented domestic filmmaker to a worldwide household name. While vacationing in Switzerland, Britons Leslie Banks and Edna Best befriend jovial Frenchman Pierre Fresnay. Not long afterward, Fresnay is murdered. He whispers a secret in Banks’ ear before expiring. This is witnessed by several sinister foreign agents, who kidnap Banks’ daughter Nova Pilbeam to keep him from revealing what he knows: “Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day star as Ben and Jo MacKenna, an American couple on vacation traveling in Morocco in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 remake of his own 1934 hit thriller. When a murder takes place in a marketplac ” Though Alfred Hitchcock would remake the movie himself in 1956 with a bigger budget, the original 1934 ve
