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Dante DiPaolo, Gianni De Benedetto, John Saxon

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

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Directed by: Mario Bava

Release Date: February 10, 1963

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DVD Release Date: October 3, 2000

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  • kenstachnik
    January 28, 2008
    kenstachnik
    Solid little thriller from Bava. The B/W photography of this film is what really sets it apart from the other contemporaries of it's day.
  • harrycaul
    October 5, 2007
    harrycaul
    The granddaddy of the giallo genre. It's a delightfully entertaining little thriller, and Bava's seamless shifts in tone from dark psycho-thriller to romantic comedy and back again are masterly. By comparison, Argento's stabs at comedy often feel forced and lame.
  • mjgildea
    October 1, 2007
    mjgildea
    I got into The Girl Who Knew Too Much once I decided to stop stewing over the fact that it wasn't done in color. It still looked great and reeked of Mario Bava's signature style. Leticia Roman was gorgeous and the story was better than anything the influential on this movie Hitch...( read more)cock was doing at the time. I was expecting a little more of a twist at the end, but the suggestion of one at the end was hilarious and right in like with the Hitchcockian humor sprinkled throughout the movie.
  • bbcfloridabound
    January 30, 2008
    bbcfloridabound
    My First Bava Film, Who is Mario Bava, well I bet Hitchcock was scared of him. If you like ole school thrillers, you have to see this one. Its Black and White, but the lighting throughtout the movie is the bomb. Made me a instant Bava Fan.
  • mpghoul1973
    May 7, 2009
    mpghoul1973
    Hailed as the first Giallo. But less seedier than the traditional giallo. The Girl Who Knew to Much is a fantastic film. The Bava look is full in effect! The thing that does suck for us English only speaking Chaps; as the film is spoken in Italian and subtitled. Now i could care ...( read more)less about reading subtitles, but when its Bava you want to absorb as much of the imagry as possible! Thats the only downside to this film. And truthfully its not even that bad of a thing. Theres plenty of suspence to allow the veiwer to admire the artistry the Bava so well crafts.
    TGWKTM has a sleek and rather familar story. The whole twist has been done in many other Giallos so its not that hard to figure out. The humor throughout is actually pretty funny and the very last gimmick is laugh out loud halarious!
    Bavas first foray into the Giallo is defiantly a winner!
  • thrusz
    July 2, 2008
    thrusz
    Goddammit. I already reviewed this one and I wrote a helluva review. Okay, I'll pause from watching Bay of Blood to rewrite it because I know I won't have to the patience to do it at work tomorrow.

    I'll repeat. The Italians love John Saxon.

    I hate to review this m...( read more)ovie as "Hitchcockian" because it's just lazy. A) Every movie that's a thriller and has a little bit of whodunnit is now labeled as "Hitchcockian." It's just lame reviewing and I criticize the critics for using such a cliche. B) The fact that the title is an homage to both the 1934 and the 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much just makes the Hitchcockian reivew a bit too easy. The thing is that the movie really does scream Hitchcock quite a bit. At least more than Dario Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock?

    My favorite part of this movie is the cryptic nature of the plot. The movie leads you to question the very nature of how you solve a mystery. Bava doesn't really let you in to explain whether or not this movie has a supernatural twist or can be solved in the realm of reality. I know that Scooby Doo did the same bit, but until recently, the bad guys were always real people. I don't know why Scooby and Shaggy were still scared after all those hundreds of mysteries involving guys with masks. But this one touches on the surreal and really has you questioning how to solve this murder mystery.

    I really have to give credit to the mystery aspect of this movie too. Like all murder mysteries, the movie throws all these red herrings at you. Now, while I solved it (I'm really good at solving murder mysteries in movies. I won't say that I'm smart or anything, but I can usually tell the ploys used to distract you), I have to say that the red herrings were actually fairly convincing this time. These false leads were always at key points in the movie that made a lot of sense. While the actual killer's explanation is the most validating and most fulfilling answer to the series of crimes, I will say that some of those early answers were "good enough" and you know that a lot of movies would have just settled for some of those in depth explanations. Not Bava. I have to say, I'm very pleased with how the movie plays out and what the real answer to the film is.

    This is a very playful movie. Incorporating John Saxon (who manages to play with an Italian cast very convincingly, despite being dubbed into Italian and then subtitled...one of my least favorite processes.) is just a delight. He is just a great foil for the main character and is used fantasticly well as the male lead. I never really thought of John Saxon as the handsome male lead (I know...what's wrong with me?), but he really pulls it off here and is just darned convincing. The odd part is that I watched the interview with John Saxon after watching the film. He didn't understand what Bava was telling him a good deal of the time and didn't understand occasionally what the scene was about. Whatever he thought he had to do had to be pretty accurate though because the movie plays out pretty smoothly. I have trouble critiquing foreign language performances a lot of the time, especially with dubbbed films, but this really a good job.

    But I was talking about playfulness. At the foundation, this is a murder mystery, but this does have that Hitchcockian feel of having a bit of lightheartedness, mixing some tongue-in-cheek moments with brutal, extreme suspense. Bava stars off the movie with an insane amount of inciting incidents. The story starts with four major moments for the main character to overcome. She withnesses the death of her aunt, she's mugged, sees a murder, and is called crazy...all within the first twenty minutes. That's when the story begins! I mean, those four incidents form some kind of super-incident! (I am the best reviewer on Flixster...remember that. With terms like "super-incident," I'll get published in no time.) But from that "super-incident *groan*, we get some comedy, investigation, romance, etc. etc. etc.

    The only thing that I really have to hold against this movie is the bookends. There's this intro where she is unwittingly given a marijuana cigarette. That doesn't come into play again until the end of the film and it is done very haphazardly. I don't know if Bava didn't know how to begin and end his film, but he throws this question of "did it really happen" into the mix. First of all: yes, it did happen. It's marijuana, not acid. Secondly, she was in a plane. Didn't she smell marijuana? Finally, was it all for the joke of the priest picking up the cigarettes. Regardless, it's the weakest part of the movie and I urge you to forget that it is in the movie. It kind of reminds me of the coffee in the remake of The Vanishing..

    The movie really is fantastic and while I cringe at the term "Hitchcockian," I can say that it does remind me of the Warner era with films like I Confess and The Wrong Man.
  • kingmob6
    January 21, 2008
    kingmob6
    A quick little thriller with an American vacationing in Rome who witnesses a murder. She then spends the rest of the film trying to crack the case with the help of her doctor suitor.

    Recommended.
  • genuwine57
    January 12, 2008
    genuwine57
    along with blood and black lace, established the archetype for the giallo. so so good. on par with hitchcock

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