The Trouble with Harry is a lark, the mischievous side of Hitchcock given free reign. A busman's holiday for Alfred Hitchcock, this 1955 black comedy concerns a pesky corpse that becomes a problem for a quiet, Vermont neighbourhood. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut as one of several characters who keep burying the body and finding it unburied again. Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the autumnal look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer Bernard Herrmann, whose music proved vital to the director's next half-dozen... or so films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com [show more]
There's not much suspense in Hitchcock's much maligned aburdist comedy "The Trouble With Harry," but that hardly prevents it from being among his most enjoyable films. The film is about a dead body which just can't seem to stay buried, and the machinations of various characters who get involved with the corpse and keep trying to alternately hide or reveal its presence. The corpse, the eponymous Harry, stirs up quite a bit of trouble in a quiet rural town by refusing to stay buried, and at one point or another practically everyone in the cast believes that they are responsible for poor Harry's death. Hitch's dry humor is on full display here, and it's a wonder that some of the straight-faced sexual double entendres ever got past the 1950s censorship boards. This is pure cinematic joy, with Hitch's static camera capturing an autumnal landscape filled with lush golds and reds -- this is the most exquisitely visual film from a very visually motivated director. Hitch fans used to the master of suspense's usual fare will doubtless find this sparkling dark comedy a surprise in his ouevre, but it's also an extremely pleasant surprise.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play What is The Trouble With Harry? Well it&39;s the fact that he&39;s dead and while no-one really minds everybody thinks they are responsible After several unearthings of the corpse plenty of humour a la Hitchcock and love affairs between the major characters the real cause of death is revealed and Harry troubles no-one again It&39;s a delightful romp and a decidedly different movie from the Master of Suspense Actors Shirley MacLaine John Forsythe Barry Macollum Dwight Marfield Edmund Gwenn Jerry Mathers Mildred Dunnock Mildred Natwick Parker Fennelly Royal Dano Ernest Curt Bach Leslie Wolff Philip Truex & Alfred Hitchcock Director Alfred Hitchcock Certificate PG Year 1955 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (10) Mono Additional Languages German Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; German ; Norwegian ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour and 35 minutes (approx)
Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directs this black comedy, which he listed as one of his personal favourites. When Harry Rogers' dead body is discovered one autumnal day in Vermont, several people try to keep it a secret. Among them is Captain Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn), who mistakenly believes himself to be responsible for Harry's death, Harry's widow, Jennifer (Shirley Maclaine), painter Sam Marlowe (John Forsythe) and local spinster Miss Graveley (Mildred Natwick). Their attempts to rid themselves of the troublesome corpse lead to further misunderstandings and several disinterments.
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