302 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
302 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in the Moroccan marketplace watching the
acrobats with his back to the camera just before the murder.
- 'Bernard Herrmann' (qv) (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting
the orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
- The plot calls for a man to be discovered as ``not Moroccan'' because he was
wearing black makeup. The makeup artists couldn't find a black substance
that would come off easily, and so they painted the fingers of the other man
white, so that he would leave pale streaks on the other man's skin.
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
and consists of 124 shots.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
as part of his legacy to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are
"Rear Window (1954)" (qv), "The Trouble with Harry (1955)" (qv),
"Rope (1948)" (qv), "Vertigo (1958)" (qv) and
"The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)" (qv).
- 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv) previously filmed this story as
"The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)" (qv).
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