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Actors: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Dunnock
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Trouble With Harry |
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On a fine autumn day, the body of one Harry Worp (Philip Truex) is discovered in a field by retired Captain Wiles (Edmund Gwenn), who, having been out hunting rabbits, naturally assumes that he is the murderer.
While Captain Wiles tries to wait out the swarm of people, including Harry's none-too-grieving widow Jennifer Rogers (Shirley MacLaine), stumbling around, past, and over the body, struggling artist Sam Marlowe (John Forsythe) is busy trying to fix up aging Miss Gravely (Mildred Natwick), who found the Captain trying to move the body and ended up making a date for coffee and muffins with him.
When Sam, heading home through the woods, sits down to sketch the meadow and ends up sketching Harry, he becomes coopted into the Captain's plan to bury the body. Once Harry is firmly planted, however, the Captain realizes that a bullet for Harry is one bullet too many, and so digs him up and discovers that he wasn't shot after all.
When Miss Gravely is confronted and confesses to having beaten Harry senseless for having attacked her on the road, the body goes back in and out of the ground a couple more times. With Harry back in the ground, a millionaire (Parker Fennelly) eager to buy all of Sam's paintings, and a proposal from Sam to Jennifer, all seems to be going well...until a deputy sheriff (Royal Dano) begins nosing around and Sam and Jennifer realize that they can't be legally married until Harry is legally dead.
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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On a pleasant Autumn day, in the leafy meadows of New England, a body is discovered. He is soon identified as 'Harry'. Who did the dirty deed? As responsibility passes from neighbour to neighbour in a small Vermont town, so does Harry's corpse. Romance flourishes in this oddest of situations.
--Dave Kernick, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Kind of comedy
- bungling criminals
- bungling cops/detectives
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (man) fat
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Forest?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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