The Trouble with Harry

1955 "A different kind of kick-the-bucket comedy!"
7| 1h39m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 03 October 1955 Released
Producted By: Paramount Pictures
Country: United States of America
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When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town's residents secretly wonder if they are responsible, including the man's ex-wife, Jennifer, and Capt. Albert Wiles, a retired seaman who was hunting in the woods where the body was found. As the no-nonsense sheriff gets involved and local artist Sam Marlowe offers his help, the community slowly unravels the mystery.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Hitchcoc I was really young when I saw this film for the first time. In a quaint Vermont town, a body is found. For a while, the guy is just part of the landscape. Kids even play around it (that's Jerry Mather...the Beaver). A flood of guilt settles on the community. At least three people feel they may have caused the death of this man. However, the townspeople will do anything to keep the authorities from getting wind of it. Royal Dano, the long faced sheriff, is out there somewhere. We are also introduced to Shirley MacLaine who plays a young mother and is the wife of the deceased. As with all Hitchcock films, there is a lot of unique situations as people bury, dig up, hide, cover the body. If some feel the end is anticlimactic, that's what it's supposed to be. One of the stars of the show is Vermont in the fall which provides a backdrop for all the grim doings that are going on.
Python Hyena The Trouble With Harry (1955) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock / Cast: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Royal Dano: The trouble with Harry is established early. He is dead and everyone who comes in contact with the body in the meadow believes that they are the prime suspect. Edmund Gwenn plays Captain Albert Wiles who comes across the body and believes he accidentally shot him while hunting. John Forsythe plays Sam Marlowe, an artist who assists Wiles in the several times they buried the body. Sam is romancing Jennifer Rogers, played by Shirley MacLaine whose husband is Harry and she seems disinterested in his death because she believes that she is responsible. Mildred Natwick plays Ivey Gravely who believes that she caused his death when she was attacked by him and she hit him over the head with her hiking boot. Royal Dano plays the Deputy Sheriff who shows up periodically while everyone is moving Harry about just out of sight. Director Alfred Hitchcock has fun with the humour and mystery surrounding Harry's death but the third act seems in very poor taste particularly when a cop pays a house visit when Harry's body is in a bathtub. The characters have likable qualities as played by an engaging cast but can anyone be this unlikable after death? The trouble with Harry is that he is never alive on camera for his version of the story to be told. Score: 7 / 10
mike48128 A rather droll and mild English stage play brought to the screen by Hitchcock. It's a lot like Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace" in that it draws you in the longer you watch it. A mild film by it's director's standards. The "Trouble" with Harry is that he's dead, and he tends to show up in the most inconvenient places after being moved about several times, to hide him from the Sheriff. There is also quite a bit of discussion as to how and why he died. Maybe it wasn't murder after all? A charmer, beautifully filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, in Vermont. Some might consider it too slow or even plot-less, but it retains that special Hitchcock sense of dry humor, and it is a love story! Like many other great and classic films, it was originally a box-office failure. Look for Jerry Mathers (Leave it to Beaver) as Shirley's little boy!
writers_reign In 1952 Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac published a novel entitled Celle qui n'etait plus (She Who Was Not) somehow it came to Hitchcock's attention and seeing the potential for a film he tried to buy the rights but was beaten by Henri-Georges Clouzot (Hitch had more luck with another Boileau-Narcejac title D'entre les morts (1954) which he turned into Vertigo. However he was not only an indifferent film maker but a bad loser so he shot Celle qui n'etait plus anyway and released it the same year as Clouzot released his version, Les Diaboliques. In a clumsy attempt to muddy the water Hitch shot The Trouble With Harry as ho-hum comedy rather than the classic thriller that Clouzot released as Les Diaboliques. By far the best thing about Harry is the location shooting in Vermont. The casting was eclectic to say the least with acting honours shared between the two great Mildreds - Natwick and Dunnock - of American stage and screen, Edmund Gwenn phoning in his 'quaint' persona, Royal Dano about as far East as he can get from his natural habitat the Western and two mediocre efforts from John Forsyth and Shirley MacLaine. The peripatetic corpse is present in both films and for good measure Hitch has Harry end up in the bathtub as did Paul Meurisse. See it for the foliage