The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew
Too Much is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British.
It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.
The film is Hitchcock's first film using this title and was followed later with his own 1956 film using the same name featuring a significantly different plot and script.
The second film featured James Stewart and Doris Day, and was made for Paramount Pictures.
The two films are very different in tone.
In the book-length interview "Hitchcock/Truffaut" (1967), in response to filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied, "Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional."
However, it's been claimed this statement cannot be taken at face value.
The 1934 film has nothing except the title in common with G. K. Chesterton's 1922 book of detective stories of the same name.
Hitchcock decided to use the title because he held the film rights for some of the stories in the book.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as "the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955–1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film "The Pleasure Garden" (1925).
His first successful film,  (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film, "Blackmail", was the first British .
Two of his 1930s thrillers, "The 39 Steps" (1935) and "The Lady Vanishes" (1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including "Rebecca" (1940), "Foreign Correspondent" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), and "Notorious" (1946).
"Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for "Lifeboat" (1944) and "Spellbound" (1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The "Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film "is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with "Strangers on a Train" (1951) and "Dial M For Murder" (1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time: "Rear Window" (1954), "Vertigo" (1958), "North by Northwest" (1959), and "Psycho" (1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012, "Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world-wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite, "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969 film)
The Girl Who Knew Too Much is a 1969 neo noir film starring Adam West as Johnny Cain, a nightclub owner and former freelance adventurer who is forced out of retirement when a crime syndicate boss is murdered in his nightclub and investigations lead into unexpected areas.
It was the final film of director Francis D. Lyon and United Pictures Corporation.
The film co-stars Nancy Kwan, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Alda, Patricia Smith, David Brian, and noted jazz musician Buddy Greco as nightclub entertainer Albert" Lucky" Jones.
The melodramatic promotional tagline of" The Girl Who Knew Too Much" was:" You have to be crazy or in love — to take on the syndicate!"
The film was intended to be a vehicle for Adam West to escape his Batman stereotype by playing a cynical, hard- edged tough guy.
The movie's dialogue is typified by a scene between West's Cain and the boozy Mrs. Grinaldi played by Smith:" The Girl Who Knew Too Much" was not a box office success in theatrical release, but became a staple of late- night showings on WCBS- TV and other television stations in the early 1970s.
It then disappeared from sight for decades and was in danger of becoming a lost film.
However, it finally appeared in a home video release that came on May 28, 2013, on Blu-ray and DVD.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Man Who Knew Too Little is a 1997 spy comedy film starring Bill Murray, directed by Jon Amiel, and written by Robert Farrar and Howard Franklin.
The film is based on Farrar's novel" Watch That Man", and the title is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 film" The Man Who Knew Too Much" and his 1956 remake of the same title.
Barbara Howitt
Barbara Howitt was an English operatic mezzo- soprano.
She is most remembered for appearing in the 1956 film" The Man Who Knew Too Much" directed by Alfred Hitchcock where she sings the solo in the" Storm Clouds Cantata" by Arthur Benjamin.
Hajen som visste för mycket
Hajen som visste för mycket( The Shark Who Knew Too Much) is a 1989 Swedish comedy film directed by Claes Eriksson and the second to star the members of Galenskaparna och After Shave.
The Man Who Knew Everything
The Man Who Knew Everything  is a 2009 Russian film directed by on the same name novel by .
Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Leslie Benjamin( Sydney, 18 September 1893 London, 10 April 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.
He is best known as the composer of" Jamaican Rumba"( 1938) and of the" Storm Clouds Cantata", featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film" The Man who Knew Too Much"( 1934),( 1956).
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963 film)
The Girl Who Knew Too Much is a 1963 Italian giallo film.
Directed by Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, the film stars John Saxon as Dr. Marcello Bassi and Letícia Román as Nora Davis.
The plot revolves around a young woman named Nora, who travels to Rome and witnesses a murder.
The police and Dr. Bassi do n't believe her since a corpse ca n't be found.
Several more murders follow, tied to a decade- long string of killings of 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" Evil Eye" was released in the United States 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.
The Man Who Knew Love
The Man Who Knew Love( Spanish:" El hombre que supo amar") is a 1976 Spanish biographical film based on the life of San Juan de Dios( Saint John of God).
It was directed by Miguel Picazo, an acclaimed Spanish director of the'60s, and stars Timothy Dalton, Antonio Ferrandis, José María Prada, and Victoria Abril.
The film marked Picazo's return to making feature films after few years of working for television.
It was shot in summer 1976 but was n't released until two years later( on August 10, 1978).
" The Man Who Knew Love" was financed by the religious order of the Brothers of San Juan de Dios, who had originally commissioned the film and who also supported its general distribution in Spain.
Still," The Man Who Knew Love" failed at the box office.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 Film)?
Answer: Leytonstone