One Paragraph Movie Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much

Three hundred and fifty-first film: The Man Who Knew Too Much, Hitchcock’s 1956 remake of his own film that stars James Stewart as a doctor who knows too much and Doris Day as his wife, a singer who is not given enough credit for what she knows. As a couple holidaying in Morocco with their overacting kid Hank, an international spy reveals a British assassination plot to them as he dies in the street, and Hank is kidnapped by the other side to ensure their silence. Jimmy and Doris can’t say anything to the authorities lest anything happens to their irritating son, so they have to foil the plot and find their boy on their own. The fantastic premise is undermined a bit by distracting side stories including Doris’s friends stopping by for cocktails and the first filmed appearance of ‘Que Sera Sera’, a rendition of which leads to Hank being found in a locked room in a foreign embassy. It’s good, but it’s not a top five Hitchcock. Three taxidermy shop mistaken identities out of five.