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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
U.S., 1955
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Edmund Gwen, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Approx. 99 min.
“The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, won't stay buried, and won't give the inhabitants of a small Vermont village any peace: an elderly sea captain, an old maid, an artist, and the deceased's young widow get involved in the problem of disposing of him, because they all feel guilty about his demise. But Hitchcock loved the project's potential for macabre understatement, so he has the group reacting with cool, callous detachment toward death.” – Time Out
Reviews
“A wonderful, fanciful film, the most optimistic movie [Hitchcock] ever made—a fairy tale among nightmares.”
– Dave Kehr
“Hitchcock’s lost masterpiece... the moment has come to reclaim THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY as radical absurdist cinema.”
– The Guardian