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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
· Movie
· 120 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #887
- IMDb #1292
- Google retired #2458
- Rotten Tomatoes #938
- Metacritic #943
- Letterboxd #1381
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1178
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1254
- Metacritic Critics #989
- Metacritic Audience #1109
- Kinopoisk #1488
- AlloCiné #661
- Trakt #1878
Every rating
73–89
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Trakt on 73, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89.
See the most agreed on films →An American family vacationing in Morocco accidentally uncovers an assassination plot. Their young son is kidnapped to ensure their silence. The desperate parents must travel to London and attempt to thwart the assassination themselves while simultaneously trying to locate and rescue their child from the clutches of the conspirators.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Based on
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 16 May 1956
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Arabic, French
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $11.3M
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Cast
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Awards
Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 4 nominations total
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