20 Things You Somehow Missed In Alfred Hitchcock Movies
16. Bernard Herrmann's Cameo - The Man Who Knew Too Much
As aforementioned, Sir Alfred Hitchcock made it habitual to cameo in all of his own movies. He deliberately placed them early on in the film so that audiences could focus on the plot at present, rather than be distracted by a hidden director.
But what about Bernard Herrmann – the man who composed the score for many of Hitchcock’s movies, to which Sir Alfred frequently credited him for adding the much-needed level of suspense and tension to the stories?
In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Herrmann can be seen conducting the orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence, as a nod to his musical work on the film.