In this 1956 remake of the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much by Alfred Hitchcock, Dr. Ben McKenna, played by James Stewart, and Josephine 'Jo ' Conway, played by Doris Day, become inadvertently involved in an assassination plot after a mysterious Frenchman is killed and their son is subsequently kidnapped. Hitchcock himself said, "Let's say the first version was the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional," (Spoto), which I interpret as him admitting that his cinematic skills and techniques as a director had improved over the course of his career. career. This film uses Hitchcock's signature cinematic techniques, although not all of them are necessarily done in the typical manner. A typical technique is the mother/son relationship between Jo and Hank, played by Christopher Olsen. This relationship may not be like Bruno Anthony and his mother in Strangers On A Train, or Norman Bates and his mother in Psycho, there is still a close bond between them. At the beginning of the film, while in the hotel room, Jo and Hank sing Whatever Will Be, Will Be together as Jo prepares for dinner and Hank prepares for bed, and it is the song that Jo sings later in the 'embassy, ​​too loudly. , to catch Hank's attention. A typical technique, but performed differently is the wrong man scenario. Hitchcock played the wrong scenario where someone is killed and an innocent person tries to prove that they are not the killer. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Louis Bernard, the mysterious Frenchman the family meets on the bus at the beginning of the film, initially believes they are the couple who have a plot to assassinate the ambassador, but discovers that it is not them. , but the Drayto... in the center of the card... goes to Ben. Although this film has typical Hitchcock filmmaking techniques, there are some that were not used. One of these is the typical Hitchcock blonde: promiscuous, indifferent, icy, but in this film Jo, a blonde, is not promiscuous, in fact she stopped working on Broadway to live with Ben in Indianapolis, on the contrary she is thoughtful, for her son , and although she can be said to be initially cold for believing that Bernard was a bad guy, and secondly for thinking that the Draytons were following them, she can also be taken to be wary of others. Another would be that this movie doesn't contain much female humiliation, even though there is the scene on the bus early on where Hank accidentally removes the Arab woman's veil. Works Cited Spoto, Donald. The art of Alfred Hitchcock, fifty years of his films. 2nd. New York: Anchor, 1992. Print.