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 ...more
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 ...more
- Leslie Banks - Bob Lawrence
- Edna Best - Jill Lawrence
- Peter Lorre - Abbott
- Frank Vosper - Ramon Levine
- Hugh Wakefield - Clive
- Celia Lovsky
- Henry Oscar - Dentist
- Nova Pilbeam - Betty Lawrence
- Pierre Fresnay - Louis Bernard
- George Curzon - Gibson
- Cicely Oates - Nurse Agnes
- D.A. Clarke-Smith - Insp. Binstead
- Alfred Hitchcock - Director
- Michael Balcon - Producer
- Edwin Greenwood - Screenwriter
- D.B. Wyndham-Lewis - Screenwriter
- A.R. Rawlinson - Screenwriter
- Emlyn Williams - Screenwriter
- Charles Bennett - Screenwriter
- Alfred Junge - Art Director
- Peter Proud - Art Director
- Hugh Stewart - Editor
- Arthur Benjamin - Composer (Music Score)
- Louis Levy - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Curt Courant - Cinematographer
- Alfred Junge - Set Designer










