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Watch: The Trouble with Harry 1955 123movies, Full Movie Online – There is a dead well-dressed man in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Captain Albert Wiles, who stumbles across the body and finds by the man’s identification that his name is Harry Worp, believes he accidentally shot Harry dead while he was hunting rabbits. Captain Wiles wants to hide the body as he feels it is an easier way to deal with the situation than tell the authorities. While Captain Wiles is in the adjacent forest, he sees other people stumble across Harry, most of whom don’t seem to know him or care or notice that he’s dead. One person who does see Captain Wiles there is spinster Ivy Gravely, who vows to keep the Captain’s secret about Harry. Captain Wiles also secretly sees a young single mother, Jennifer Rogers, who is the one person who does seem to know Harry and seems happy that he’s dead. Later, another person who stumbles across both Harry and Captain Wiles is struggling artist Sam Marlowe, to whom Captain Wiles tells the entire story of what he has seen thus far. Over the course of the day, several revelations come to light that question if Captain Wiles actually killed Harry. Sam, Mrs. Rogers, Captain Wiles and Miss Gravely’s individual and collective actions in the matter of Harry take into account friendship, self-preservation, the path of least resistance, love and a lot of realizations about what their past actions will mean. Their work may all be for naught if Deputy Sheriff Calvin Wiggs, the closest thing to law enforcement in their town, finds out about Harry..
Plot: When a local man’s corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town’s residents secretly wonder if they are responsible, including the man’s ex-wife, Jennifer, and Capt. Albert Wiles, a retired seaman who was hunting in the woods where the body was found. As the no-nonsense sheriff gets involved and local artist Sam Marlowe offers his help, the community slowly unravels the mystery.
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	7.0/10 Votes: 38,879
	88% | RottenTomatoes
	74/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

Black Comedy
Alfred Hitchcock decided to experiment again. This time he wanted a movie without stars (that Shirley MacClaine would later become a big movie star on her own after this, her first role, is an interesting little irony) and with a light but rather darkly humorous feel. It’s interesting to note that this came out the same year as the original The Ladykillers in England. Contemporary audiences were a bit turned off by the idea of finding humor about the burial and reburials of a dead man, but I think that time has been very good to one of only a handful of comedies that Hitchcock ever made (it’s usually noted as only his second, but these people always forget both The Farmer’s Wife and Champagne). One thing that tends to turn off modern audiences is the rather lackadaisical pace the movie takes, but I find the steady build very conducive to creating a rather wonderful bevy of characters through which all of the action flows.

Harry’s dead and he won’t go away. Captain Wiles finds the dead Harry, convinced that one of his three shots that morning found its mark in the unsuspecting Harry. As he struggled to find out what to do, several other people come by to remark about the body and take no real notice of it at the same time. The first is Miss Gravely, an older spinster of the small New England town nearby who politely greets Wiles and notes that he should get moving if he’s to bury Harry soon. The second is Jennifer Rogers and her five year old son Arnie. Jennifer is almost ecstatic at the sight of the dead body. The third is a tramp who takes Harry’s shoes. The fourth is Sam Marlowe, a local artist who takes a sketch of the dead man’s face.

And it is with this cast of characters that they decide to bury Harry, first convinced of Captain Wiles’ accidental guilt before they dig him back up, rebury him, dig him up again, and then clean up the body and his clothes to set him out for the next day when Arnie will rediscover the body and, using his twisted sense of time, tell everyone that he found the body today, which really means yesterday to him.

The dark humor of the situation underlies every interaction as people who have lived close to each other interact for the first time in any meaningful sense because three of the four (Captain Wiles, Miss Gravely, and Jennifer) all end up thinking that they killed Harry. Captain Wiles is an old sea captain who found this small corner of New England just three years before, clinging to the articles he had collected over his career in his small out of the way hut. Miss Gravely is a spinster that doesn’t realize how much she looks like one but happily takes the advice of Sam Marlowe as he cuts her hair. Jennifer tells of how Harry married her after Harry’s brother and Jennifer’s former fiancé died, only to disappear on their wedding night at the insistence of his horoscope.

It’s hard to talk about the charms of this movie, because it’s really all about the feeling of it. The notion that these sweet interactions between Captain Wiles and Miss Gravely as they develop a romance and the similar relationship that develops between Sam and Jennifer are all happening while people try to figure out who was responsible for the death of a man on the outskirts of town ends up being really endearing. A lot of that is carried by the performances, especially Edmund Gwenn with whom Hitchcock had worked several times before. As Captain Wiles, Gwenn is disarmingly sweet as he figures out how to deal with his situation and then courts Miss Gravely, but it’s John Forsythe as Sam who’s really at the center of the film. His slightly detached air provides the audience with our vehicle into the little world of the film, and his sardonic tone is a pleasing voice through which to follow. Shirley MacClaine in quite literally her first film role, is also sweet and innocent as the jilted wife with little concern for her dead husband as she steadily falls for the masculine Sam.

The plot is bare because it is there as an excuse for these four characters to interact and grow together. It moves at its own steady pace, happy to let scenes play out for their own sake rather than to get on to the next scene about either digging up or burying the body. The dark aspect of the material provides an off kilter feeling to everything that really only enhances the sweet nature of the characters’ growth. There’s also something about the overall feel of character interactions that makes this feel like it could have been set in the English countryside rather than New England. The way characters are just so polite to each other reminds me of one of Hitchcock’s last British picture, Young and Innocent.

While I can understand why many modern audiences wouldn’t share my enthusiasm for The Trouble with Harry considering its slow pace and gentle sense of humor, I find the combination rather infectious. It’s a delightful movie that straddles a combination of tones rather deftly. The Trouble with Harry has gotten a re-evaluation over the years, and I think it’s richly deserved.

A really good film but badly promoted at the time
While Alfred Hitchcock is my favourite director, I am not going to say that he hasn’t made a disappointing film(and actually I haven’t come across that many Hitch fans that have said that). But even his disappointments I find are not that terrible, certainly in comparison to the worst of other directors’ resumes. The Trouble with Harry for me may fall short of being one of his top 10 films(Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Rebecca, Notorious, The Lady Vanishes, Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt, North By Northwest and The Birds) and it is one that seems to divide audiences, but it is nowhere near among his weakest like Jamaica Inn, Topaz, Under Capricorn and The Paradine Case. The Trouble with Harry does come across as pedestrian pace-wise sometimes, but even if people don’t like it(and that is absolutely fine) I do find it difficult to believe personally that they’d give it a score that indicates that it has no redeeming values, then again that may be just me.

Dissenting opinions, saying that the film is not funny and that it has no plot, and that it was a flop at the box office might indicate for some that The Trouble with Harry is not a great film. I think a large part of why was how it was promoted/marketed. Anybody thinking it would be a murder mystery and that it would have suspense like Hitchcock’s master of suspense nickname suggests will be disappointed, and I don’t think it helped that Paramount clearly didn’t know how to promote it. The Trouble with Harry is an acquired taste and I wouldn’t go as far to say it’s perfect, but to me it is an example of a film that succeeds at being different. Besides, how a film did at the box office or how much money has made has never been an overriding factor in how I judge films anyway, it isn’t a fair criticism and there are many examples of films that made lots of money but actually aren’t that good.

The Trouble with Harry is really well-made for a start. The cinematography is wholly professional and sometimes has a dream-like look to it. The scenery is a genuine beauty, and I’d go as far to say that The Trouble with Harry is one of Hitch’s most visually pleasing films. Hitchcock splendidly directs, the opening sequence was a truly great touch and set the scene of the film really well, sure it is different to what he is known for, but there is the odd suspenseful moment. And there are those suspenseful moments you can tell that it is Hitch directing, which is more than I can say for something like Jamaica Inn or Under Capricorn where I was struggling to tell where it was Hitchcock directing or not. Bernard Hermann would do even better later with Psycho and especially Vertigo but the music score for The Trouble with Harry is still an atmospheric one that does a fine job fitting with the film.

I’ll also say that I am one of those who did find The Trouble with Harry very funny, often hilarious. Black humour works wonders when done right, and the black humour I found was done right here. It is very wry and deliciously ironic, also with some of the one-liners with Edmund Gwenn and Mildred Natwick quite ahead-of-its-time. Some will find the story plot-less with not much of a point, compared to other Hitchcock films that is true as there are more tautly written stories. However the story here while somewhat odd is clever and I did love how dramatically understated it was. The characters are disparate and will not come across as very likable to people, but like with the subtle storytelling and understated drama to keep them like that- and to have them spending the time thinking who did it? and did I do it?- was a deliberate choice and one that came off very nicely. The most endearing character is Miss Graveley, closely followed by Arnie.

From an acting point of view, The Trouble with Harry is as excellent as the humour. Dwight Marfield is a little wooden, but it is not enough to harm anything and doesn’t stick out too much like a sore thumb to everybody else. It is better to judge John Forsythe on his own, rather than comparing him to the likes of Cary Grant and James Stewart. His performance won’t be up there with one of the greatest in a Hitchcock film, but his ruggedly handsome looks, subtle comic delivery and quiet intelligence makes it an above decent one. Shirley MacLaine was in her film debut, and it is a very charming and sweet(but not overly-so) debut indeed, again like Forsythe she works better being judged in her own way as well. Their chemistry is convincing enough, but that between Gwenn and Natwick was stronger. Mildreds Natwick and Dunnock are very easy to like and seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, while Jerry Mathers is similarly likable(and cute). I found Edmund Gwenn to be the one who dominated though and in a good way, he has brilliant comic timing and is very commanding and cool, it really helps that he has the best lines along with Natwick(their chemistry was adorable).

Overall, really good, even great, film that shouldn’t be dismissed so quickly. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 1200000
Revenue 7000000
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Mystery
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer John Michael Hayes, Jack Trevor Story
Actors John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 BAFTA 1 win & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.50 : 1 (negative ratio), 1.85 : 1 (intended ratio)
Camera Mitchell VistaVision Cameras
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (horizontal)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), VistaVision
Printed Film Format 35 mm