The Trouble with Harry

The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 American black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes was based on the 1950 novel by Jack Trevor Story. It starred Edmund Gwenn and John Forsythe Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine, in her first film role. The Trouble with Harry was released in the United States on October 3, 1955, then rereleased in 1984 once the distribution rights had been acquired by Universal Pictures.

The quirky but downtoearth residents of the small hamlet of Highwater, Vermont, are faced with the freshly dead body of Harry Worp Philip Truex, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of who the person is, who was responsible for his sudden death, and what should be done with the body is the trouble with Harry.Three of the main characters in the film each believe that he or she is the person who killed Harry. Captain Wiles Edmund Gwenn is sure that he killed the man with a stray shot from his rifle while hunting, until it is shown he actually shot a rabbit. Spunky and independent young Jennifer Rogers Shirley MacLaine is Harrys estranged wife. She, along with her small son Arnie Jerry Mathers, ran away from her loveless marriage, and she believes she killed Harry because she hit him hard with a milk bottle after he tracked her down. Miss Gravely Mildred Natwick is certain that the man died after a blow from the heel of her hiking boot when he lunged at her out of the bushes still reeling from the blow received at the hands of Jennifer. Sam Marlowe John Forsythe, an attractive and nonconformist artist, is openminded about the whole event, and is prepared to help his friends and neighbors in any way he can. In any case, nobody is upset at all about this death. ........

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