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The main character of Mario Bava’s 1963 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Italian: La ragazza che sapeva troppo) is Nora Davis, portrayed by Italian-American actress Letícia Román.
Nora is characterized as an "amateur detective" and a massive fan of mystery novels (specifically gialli). Her most memorable lines reflect her meta-awareness of the thriller genre, her frustration with being disbelieved, and the film's uniquely dark humor.
This is one of the most iconic lines from the film’s opening, spoken while Nora is on the plane to Rome. It highlights her character's obsession with crime fiction while establishing a "Hitchcockian" irony—Nora is a woman who loves reading about murder but is dismissive of it happening in reality, only to witness a real-life stabbing hours later.
When Nora discovers a series of old newspaper clippings in a secret room, she realizes she has stumbled upon the "Alphabet Murders." The killer had previously murdered victims whose surnames began with A, B, and C. As Nora Davis, she realizes with horror that the killer is progressing through the alphabet and she is the intended fourth victim. This realization shifts the film from a mystery to a survival thriller.
In the original Italian cut, Nora has a memorable realization regarding a pack of cigarettes given to her at the airport by a stranger (who was actually a drug smuggler). At the very end of the movie, after the killer has been caught, Nora discovers she has been smoking marijuana cigarettes the entire time.
Nora spends much of the film arguing with Dr. Marcello Bassi (played by John Saxon), who initially dismisses her claims of murder as "mythomania" (a pathological tendency to lie or exaggerate).
It is worth noting that depending on which version of the film you watch, the main character's name changes:
The summary implies the marijuana is a twist revealed only at the end, whereas in the Italian cut, it is a running plot point used to discredit Nora's reliability throughout the film.
The summary incorrectly assumes the victims' names changed to fit the protagonist's name, but since the initial 'D' remained constant, no adjustment was necessary.
The main character of The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) is Nora Davis (renamed Nora Drowson in the US version, The Evil Eye), played by Letícia Román. She is an avid reader of mystery novels who becomes involved in a series of "Alphabet Murders" (A, B, C...) and fears she is the next victim (D). Her memorable lines include "Oh mother, murders don’t just happen like that here" (spoken on the plane) and her realization regarding the alphabet pattern. In the Italian version, a running subplot involves her accidentally smoking marijuana cigarettes, which leads other characters (and potentially the audience) to question if the events she witnesses are hallucinations; this element was largely removed or altered in the US release.