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 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.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
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.
FeardotCom
FeardotCom is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone and starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea.
The plot details a New York City detective investigating a series of mysterious deaths connected to a disturbing website.
Director Malone's second feature for Warner Bros. after the release of "House on Haunted Hill" (1999), "FeardotCom" was an international co-production between companies based in the United States, Luxembourg, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The film was shot on location in Luxembourg and Montreal, Canada.
"Feardotcom" was released in the United States on August 30, 2002, and grossed $18.9 million worldwide against its $40 million budget.
William Malone (director)
William Malone( born 1953) is an American horror filmmaker who directed such films as the 1999 remake" House on Haunted HillScared to DeathCreature", and" FeardotCom".
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.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
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 can not 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.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Are director of film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 Film) and director of film Feardotcom from the same country?
Answer: yes