The Man Who Knew Too Much

[littlepinetree]

I just read something very interesting on Facebook.
Susan Olsen who played Cindy on The Brady Bunch has an older brother that played Doris's son in The Man Who Knew Too Much!! I'm going to watch the movie again and see if he looked anything like Cindy Brady!

[Jas1]

Read in a google alert that Paramount is re-re-making The Man Who Knew too Much- with a twist - under the title - 'The Kid Who Knew Too Much' - reversing the roles in that a teenage endeavours to free his kidnapped parents. I know we talked about re-makes on another thread, maybe this is the way to do a re-make of a classic- by giving it some kind of twist?

[Dr. Gerald Boyer]

Excellent. Arguably Miss Day's best film which is no surprise since Alfred Hitchcock is the greatest director she ever worked for. Stewart & Miss Day give excellent performances as an American man and wife thrown into international intrigue and espionage when their son is kidnapped. The concert hall sequence is a textbook example of how suspense cinema should be filmed. Hitchcock gives the film depth and several artistic nuances that help make the film a pleasure to watch. It's too bad Miss Day didn't get to work with some of the great directors of her era more often as her 3 best films came from the 3 most artistically proficient directors she worked with: Hitchcock, George Seaton(The Counterfeit Traitor, 36 Hours) on Teacher's Pet and Norman Jewison(The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof, Rollerball) on The Thrill Of It All).

[anialek36]

Maybe this is not the best film master, film is uneven at times... Well, here Doris looks and plays phenomenally well in my opinion Stewart was known as Hitchcock's favorite actor he is a very good actor, I will say more is a fantastic actor The final scene of the movie is sensational, simply the world championship

[ray]

Psycho gave such a sordid example of the Mother Son relationship. Both Mother and Son were deranged sickos. The relationship of Mother and Son in the correct light was in The Man Who Knew Too Much. Doris and her son had a healthy bond of careing and intense Love. Many of us are fortunate enough to know the power of such a positive influence a dedicated Mother is. A Mother is always there no matter what you have done right or wrong. And truely your best friend. Doris's strong performance in this film had to come from having her own Son she loved so much to make her character come to vivid life.

[Peter Flapper]

Hi there,

I always think that the scene in The man who knew too much, where Jo learns that her son is kidnapped, is very familiar with the one in the Doris Day Show: Doris leaves Todays World were Toby is lost. Doris emotions are so very believable, I think her acting is super in both scenes.

P

[anialek36]

Hi there,

I always think that the scene in The man who knew too much, where Jo learns that her son is kidnapped, is very familiar with the one in the Doris Day Show: Doris leaves Todays World were Toby is lost. Doris emotions are so very believable, I think her acting is super in both scenes.

P

Exactly in these scenes, Doris has shown he is a brilliant actress

Greetings from Polish Ania

[webmaster]

Yes Peter, Doris was really a 'method actor', like Brando and others, she reached within herself to find emotions from the past to help her play the parts that required those strong feelings. That's why she didn't like experiencing the emotions required for making "Julie" and, especially, "Midnight Lace", where she had to be taken home after a difficult scene (in the lift, I believe).

Some actors believe you should just 'act' and not dig deep into past experiences but I think that Doris always wanted to be 'honest' in the roles she played so this was her way of doing it.

[anialek36]

Have a nice day Ania

[anialek36]

[anialek36]

Have a nice day Ania

[anialek36]

The first picture Doris looks gorgeous and those amazing eyes

I love the scene in the philharmonic


Greetings from Polish Ania

[anialek36]

[anialek36]

[anialek36]

[anialek36]

Greetings from Polish. Have a good Sunday Ania

[ray]

Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in all his films. Where is he in The Man Who Knew Too Much in his Doris and Jimmy Stewart remake version? Loved the scene at the end and thats Carolyn Jones as one of the guests. I hardly reconized her with the page boy hairdo!

[webmaster]

Great images Ania - thanks!

Ray,

Hitchcock's cameo in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) occurs about 26 minutes into the film.
As the McKenna's watch the acrobats, Hitchcock appears at the left, below.

List of Hitchcock cameo appearances from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hitchcock_cameo_appearances

[ray]

Wow great Bryan, never knew where he appeared in this film!!!!

[ray]

He should have a fake bun like Doris

[ray]

If you look real good Doris's bun in on the hotel pillow while she was taking a shower singing Que Sera sera. That bun never came undone during the whole picture, they played baseball with it on coffee break

[webmaster]

Yes, Doris wore a number of hair pieces in her films - they all mostly looked natural though, didn't they? (Maybe not the "Caprice" one.) In "Jumbo" she obviously didn't have hair that long in real life but she looked great with the hair extensions - I thought, anyway. Didn't really notice the bun - I thought that was how they did her hair.

[ray]

Doris had short hair then, how could you not notice the BUN!!!

[melancholy]

a very natural looking bun indeed!!

this is how short Doris' hair was in Jumbo!

[webmaster]

Great (new) photo:

[melancholy]

[ray]

Someone thought Alfred was on the bus at the opening scene when the veil was knocked off the passenger.

[Jas1]

Bryan- how could you not have noticed the bun in this film? Albeit it is very naturally done.

Great film posters by the way.

[webmaster]

I must have been concentrating on the plot!