I’ve seen a lot of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, at least I’ve seen all of his most famous movies, but yesterday I came across another one of his films, The Trouble with Harry, 1954, and I watched it. To my surprise, it wasn't a suspense or almost a detective, and the comedy, of course, is quite black. An elderly former captain, hunting
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I’ve seen a lot of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, at least I’ve seen all of his most famous movies, but yesterday I came across another one of his films, The Trouble with Harry, 1954, and I watched it. To my surprise, it wasn't a suspense or almost a detective, and the comedy, of course, is quite black. An elderly former captain, hunting rabbits in the local forest (which, I must say, was forbidden there), suddenly stumbles upon the corpse of a man, who, as it turns out, is named Harry. The first thought that came to his mind was that he accidentally killed him, so we need to get rid of the corpse. But the place where the corpse is located, it turns out, for that area suddenly unusually lively, unexpected, sometimes very strange witnesses appear one after another, so the process of burying and tearing the corpse turns into a kind of carousel, in the end it also turns out that he is not the only one “claiming” the role of the killer. Already the clouds of the coming justice begin to gather over their heads, the end, however, turns out to be quite simple, besides generously equipped with melodramatic lines. I won’t tell you, if anyone is interested, take a look. What can I say about this movie? It is difficult to take him seriously, but it seems that the author, given the grotesque and sometimes satirical techniques used, did not strive for this. The film is not bad, and the picture quality is excellent for such an old film, in very picturesque places during the golden autumn somewhere in Vermont, so it looks good too. It’s pretty much out of the range of typical Hitchcock movies, so decide for yourself if you should watch it if you haven’t seen it yet.
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