The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

Original title

La ragazza che sapeva troppo

Directed by

Mario Bava

Genre

comedy film, horror film, film noir, crime film, romance film, mystery film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 189 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young American woman visiting Rome thinks she sees a murder. The police do not believe her because no body is found. She gets pulled into a string of killings that seem to follow an alphabetical pattern.

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What happens

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Italian: La ragazza che sapeva troppo) is a 1963 Italian giallo film directed by Mario Bava, starring John Saxon as Dr. Marcello Bassi and Letícia Román as Nora Davis. The plot revolves around a young American woman named Nora, who travels to Rome and witnesses a murder. The police and Dr. Bassi do not believe her, since a corpse has not been found. Several more killings follow, tied to a decade-long string of murder victims chosen in alphabetical order. The Girl Who Knew Too Much is considered to be the first giallo film, a film genre with a mixture of thriller, sexploitation and horror conventions. An alternative cut titled The Evil Eye was released in the United States and the United Kingdom by American International Pictures; this version features a score by Les Baxter, deletes several scenes, and adds others which place a greater emphasis on comedy compared to the Italian release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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