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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 46 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9557
Category: DVD
Author: Trouble With Harry
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Label: Universal Studios
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Original Recording Remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 100 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 025192831621
EAN: 0025192831621
ASIN: B000ECX0S8
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: October 3, 1955
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Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential video
A busman's holiday for Alfred Hitchcock, this 1955 black comedy concerns a pesky corpse that becomes a problem for a quiet, Vermont neighborhood. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut as one of several characters who keep burying the body and finding it unburied again. Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the autumnal look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer Bernard Herrmann, whose music proved vital to the director's next half-dozen or so films. But for now, The Trouble with Harry is a lark, the mischievous side of Hitchcock given free reign. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 They should have shot the scriptwriter instead! June 29, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
A hunter is out one day shooting rabbits, suddenly he discovers a dead man and thinks he must have shot him by mistake. As the story unfolds several village folk come across the body and each has a tale to tell. It was so boring! How can anyone like this lame excuse for a film? Hitchcock or not it just goes nowhere. I had to fight to stay awake. Don't bother, there has to be better films you can spend your time and money on; this is nothing more then dated garbage.
 Watch Hitch Again! May 26, 2006
Forsythe and Maclaine have a great old time dragging Harry's body around. Hitch is funny and droll. This movie is so good it can be seen over and over and it is still funny. This movie stays fresh because Hitchcock mixes readily understood motivations with funny situations, so you empathize with the characters while you laugh at their situation. Hitchcock proves that suspense can be funny.
Before Bachelor Father, there was... March 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Before Shirley Maclaine hit the bigtime; before Jerry Mather was the Beaver; before John Forsythe was Bachelor Father; and before Alfred Hitchcock was a household name -- there was "The Trouble with Harry," a film in the style of "Arsenic and Old Lace," but with perhaps even more heart and witty sophistication. (And Mather, Maclaine, and Forsythe are all on screen larger than life.)
I watched this with the subtitles-for-hearing-impaired showing -- and yes, they did make me aware of the degree to which this film is a stage-play for celluloid (I recommend using this feature whether or not you are having trouble hearing, so much does it increase one's appreciation of the verbal features of film). Being able to see the dialogue also left me much more aware than I would have been of the witty repartee that the script manages and with incomparable aplomb.
A delightful crossword puzzle of a film. How many times is Harry buried? What are the changing rationales for his re-crypting? "The Trouble with Harry" is a drawing-room comedy with a dark and quite secular edge. This movie definitely deserves to move up in the ranks at least for film historians and afficionados who want to trace the rise of a certain kind of deftly ironic and defeatist film. In my opinion this one is better than "Rear Window" for intricacy, romance, and complex cynicism.
And my God! Shirley Maclaine at her virginal best!
An upbeat Alfred Hitchcock February 1, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The trouble with Harry is that Harry is dead, and suspicion points in many directions. Various people seem to be trying to dispose of the body, which moves about some during the film. It is a case of people who assume guilt and try to cover their tracks, or people who have good intentions who assume they are covering someone else's tracks. In the process, the crime scene is muddied. Harry is not really missed by anyone, in fact some people are probably pleased that he is gone.
The motion picture may seem suspense, in a way, as you wait for the mystery to be solved, but the main interest is in the action by the various characters. The setting is small town New England, and most characters in the film are the local residents.
I would note that I did not watch this film because of the Alfred Hitchcock name. My interest was the fact that it was Shirley MacLaine's debut into films. I am displeased with Amazon because, in their listing, they seem to give Shirley MacLaine some sort of third billing. You would hardly know she is in the motion picture unless you click on "see more" to get the full cast.
 The Trouble with Harry has all the feel of a stage play brought to the big screen. January 17, 2006
The Trouble with Harry has all the feel of a stage play brought to the big screen; whose story revolves around Harry's dead body---burying it, explaining how it came to be dead, and unearthing it (although not exactly in this order). We never see Harry alive & in fact the film opens with a succession of 7 people stumbling across it on a hilltop meadow. Unfortunately---and notwithstanding the autumnal scenery of this film which is spectacular in general, almost all of Edmund Gwenn & John Forsythe's scenes out of doors are shot on rather fake looking backdrops that Hitchcock employs herein in lieu of the real thing. The "B" characters in this film, in contradistinction, are usually filmed in natural environments when they are supposed to be outside. The actual story has its merits, but the above grated on me, as did the fact that none of the aforementioned 7 seemed very surprised at coming across a dead body (including the comic one who even trips over it---not once, but twice---while reading, never even seeing it). The balance of the film concerns explaining who Harry was and what to do with him. It's, in short, a "wild story about a corpse," but one wherein a quite long set-up drags for quite a while before Hitchcock can declare that "The Trouble with Harry is Over" as the credits begin to roll. Yes, Jerry Mathers plays the kid herein (so, what?) & Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut (or so the film suggests at its opening) in this film, but neither are that remarkable, although MacLaine gives a respectable performance. Have a look-see if you are a curious Hitchcock fan, but if you are not that familiar with Alfred Hitchcock's work please don't mistake this film as being representitve of his talents. Cheers!
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