I wanted to but couldn't!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I was really young when I saw this film for the first time. In a quaint Vermont town, a body is found. For a while, the guy is just part of the landscape. Kids even play around it (that's Jerry Mather...the Beaver). A flood of guilt settles on the community. At least three people feel they may have caused the death of this man. However, the townspeople will do anything to keep the authorities from getting wind of it. Royal Dano, the long faced sheriff, is out there somewhere. We are also introduced to Shirley MacLaine who plays a young mother and is the wife of the deceased. As with all Hitchcock films, there is a lot of unique situations as people bury, dig up, hide, cover the body. If some feel the end is anticlimactic, that's what it's supposed to be. One of the stars of the show is Vermont in the fall which provides a backdrop for all the grim doings that are going on.

Like gold dust, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY is Hitchcock's fickle dalliance with black comedy, which opens with its spectacular VistaVision variegation of autumn foliage in a Vermont countryside, where a young boy Arnie (Mathers) accidentally finds a man's corpse, later we know his name is Harry and he was not from the village, apparently several residents are involved in the death of Harry.There is Captain Wiles (Gwenn), who believes that he killed Harry with a stray shot from his rifle while he was hunting rabbits, but soon would find all three recipients of his bullets and Harry is not one of them; then the spinster Miss Gravely (Natwick), who claims to kill Harry with the heel of her boot when the latter surprisingly plunges on her from the wood, but why would Harry attack her in the first place? Now, drumroll please, a third key character is Jennifer Rogers (MacLaine), Arnie's mother, she confesses that Harry is her estranged husband, who arrived earlier that day and she hit him with a milk bottle over some divide (nudge nudge wink wink) between them before he headed out towards the wood. So, presumably, a woozy Harry must mistake Miss Gravely for his wife. But is that all the truth about Harry's death, please wait and see.A fourth main character is the local painter Sam Marlowe (Forsythe), when he stumbles upon Harry's body, he draws a portrait of the deceased out of the artistic stimuli, which in due course would trigger the suspicion of Calvin Wiggs (Dano), the Deputy Sheriff. But before that, during the unfolding of the trouble with Harry, Sam and Jennifer become an item, so are Captain Wiles and Miss Gravely, small-town bonhomie does engender romance in a rapid fashion! In fact, the whole film takes place with a full circle of 24-hours, and poor Harry, not only he is afflicted with a weak heart and drop dead in an unfamiliar soil, his body has also been buried and dug out several times and what are all the reasons behind the three-ring circus? As Jennifer blurts out near the end - "I can't remember why".In all fairness, one cannot acknowledge that Hitchcock is a protean filmmaker, certainly comedy doesn't go with his style, despite that the story revolves around a macabre mystery, some red herring is expectedly but uncannily thrown in the face (the closet door in Jennifer's house), however, when the tension and suspense take a back seat, the chummy and cheesy character building and illogical whimsies frustratingly miss the mark.Shirley MacLaine is extraordinarily photogenic in her film debut, but cast a barely 20-year-older as a single mother is something a travesty (she must be married at the age of 13) and John Forsythe is simply anaemic in attempting to heat up the chemistry with her. Yet, it is rather pleasing to see the plot-line around Mildred Natwick and Edmund Gwenn doesn't retreat to the second fiddler when the plot thickens, the quartet remains inseparable through the middle point until the finish line, and certainly the two veterans are more at ease with the tall tale setting and wearing their hearts on their sleeve, so is Mildred Dunnock, who plays Mrs. Wiggs, diligently and dutifully.The film might be simply labeled as a less crowd-pleaser in Hitchcock's oeuvre, but it is the auteur's own favourite, and it also marks the beginning of the renowned Hermann-Hitchcock collaboration, while THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY loses out on the usual Hitchcock-ian trappings, it actually pushes Herrmann's tremendously bewitching work to the foreground, it is lyrical, idyllic and plain optimum.

The Trouble With Harry (1955) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock / Cast: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Royal Dano: The trouble with Harry is established early. He is dead and everyone who comes in contact with the body in the meadow believes that they are the prime suspect. Edmund Gwenn plays Captain Albert Wiles who comes across the body and believes he accidentally shot him while hunting. John Forsythe plays Sam Marlowe, an artist who assists Wiles in the several times they buried the body. Sam is romancing Jennifer Rogers, played by Shirley MacLaine whose husband is Harry and she seems disinterested in his death because she believes that she is responsible. Mildred Natwick plays Ivey Gravely who believes that she caused his death when she was attacked by him and she hit him over the head with her hiking boot. Royal Dano plays the Deputy Sheriff who shows up periodically while everyone is moving Harry about just out of sight. Director Alfred Hitchcock has fun with the humour and mystery surrounding Harry's death but the third act seems in very poor taste particularly when a cop pays a house visit when Harry's body is in a bathtub. The characters have likable qualities as played by an engaging cast but can anyone be this unlikable after death? The trouble with Harry is that he is never alive on camera for his version of the story to be told. Score: 7 / 10

The trouble with Harry is woven around a dead body( of harry) which is found in woods by a wandering kid,then by an old man who is shooting around rabbits,and consequently by few more people. They all have a different way of their own of responding, concluding and acting. They end up digging in and digging out the body thrice and at the end leave the body at the same spot, the very next day.and the caption comes "the trouble with harry is over".frankly i watched TTWH twice, first time i could bear it only for 5 minutes and deleted it. today I again downloaded it by accident after two years, the moment it started i got the flashbacks of this movie,but i decided to watch it ,thinking hitchcock would surprise me in the end like always. after watching rope,strangers on train,psycho,vertigo,dial m for murder etc etc i was a die hard fan of hitchcock, but this movie is a colossal waste of time,a torture, a blot on cinema ,a shameless ridiculing the feelings of us,a sheer trash. i beg you plz plz plz..do not watch it..!!!never..ever..ever..!!the worst creation of hitchcock..!!!