Rent The Trouble with Harry (1955)
3.5 of 5 from 113 ratings
1h 35min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- What is The Trouble With Harry? Well, it's the fact that he'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's a delightful romp and a decidedly different movie from the Master of Suspense.
- Actors:
- John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers, Royal Dano, Parker Fennelly, Barry Macollum, Dwight Marfield, Ernest Curt Bach, Alfred Hitchcock, Philip Truex, Leslie Woolf
- Directors:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Producers:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writers:
- John Michael Hayes, Jack Trevor Story
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- 12 Scrooges of Christmas, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Films to Watch If You Like..., Hitchcock in the 1940s, Holidays Film Collection, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Autumn Films, Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1959, Top Films, What to Watch Next If You Liked Scrooge
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/09/2013
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese DTS 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS 1.0, German DTS 1.0, Italian DTS 1.0, Japanese DTS 1.0, Latin American Spanish DTS 1.0, Russian DTS 1.0, Spanish DTS 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over: Making Of
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/05/2022
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono, French DTS 2.0 Mono, German DTS 2.0 Mono, Italian DTS 2.0 Mono, Japanese DTS 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Documentaries
- Storyboards
- Production Photographs
- Theatrical Trailer
- And More
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Reviews (1) of The Trouble with Harry
Oddball Comedy. - The Trouble with Harry review by Steve
Alfred Hitchcock's second purely comic film- after the screwball of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in '41- is a farcical black comedy about an inconvenient corpse who the eccentric inhabitants of a small village in rural Vermont have alternating reasons for burying and digging up again.
The macabre premise (from a novel by Jack Trevor Story) is played for laughs, principally through the deadpan reactions of the characters' to the absurd situations. It's very understated, very dry, and that's always been very Hitchcock. And it is funny, with many big laughs.
As ever, Hitchcock's support cast adds so much to the humour, particularly Edmund Gwenn in his fourth and final collaboration at the age of 82, having started with The Skin Game in '31. Shirley MacLaine makes her screen debut, and what an inspired choice. The is instantly the Queen of Kook.
One of the main pleasures is the picturesque setting of autumn in New England, filmed in Technicolor. Another is Bernard Herrmann's first soundtrack for Hitch, which the director said was his favourite. Not a typical Hitchcock suspense thriller of course, but entirely successful.
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