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The Trouble With Harry

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

I’d never seen this minor Hitchcock dark comedy. Excellent cast of Hollywood character actors and new faces!. Capt Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn) is out hunting rabbits and stumbles on a dead man he fears he’s accidentally shot. Almost everyone in town comes by: a spinster, Miss Ivy Gravley,. Arnie, a young boy (Jerry Mathers not as the Beaver), also finds the body and brings his mom (introducing Shirley MacLane and jeez is she young and gorgeous), a tramp, and a weird pseudo-bohemian artist (John Forsyth in a big role for him). Who killed him and why?. Buried, unburied, who was Harry, and why is he dead at all?. Fun dialogue that feels almost surreal. There’s an absurdist touch. Bronwen and I both really enjoyed this light piece that was shot in Vermont and on Hollywood sound stages. An odd bit from Hitchcok, but worth watching if only to see his hand in a piece where the comic outweighs the thriller by a long-shot. The features add a lot. Check them out

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