The Trouble with Harry (1955) on Netflix
While hunting rabbits, Captain Albert Wiles finds the body of Harry Worp in the hills above Highwater, Vermont. He thinks his own stray shot killed the man.
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Plot summary
Harry Worp lies dead in the hills above Highwater, Vermont, and the people who come across him each have a reason to think they put him there. Captain Albert Wiles was hunting rabbits nearby and believes a stray shot of his found the man. Jennifer Rogers, Harry's estranged wife, remembers striking him with a milk bottle. Miss Ivy Gravely is certain the heel of her hiking boot did it when Harry lunged at her from the bushes. Sam Marlowe, an artist, takes the affair calmly and offers his neighbors help. Nobody grieves much for Harry, but all of them want the body kept away from Deputy Sheriff Calvin Wiggs, who makes his living from arrests.
Cast
- Barry Macollumas Tramp
- Leslie Woolfas Art Critic (uncredited)
- Philip Truexas Harry Worp (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trouble with Harry (1955)
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- Persistent rain forced several scenes of The Trouble with Harry to be shot in a rented high school gym, where a 500-lb (226-kg) camera fell from a great height and barely missed Alfred Hitchcock.
- Expecting the Vermont town to be in full autumn foliage, the company arrived for outdoor shots on September 27, 1954 and found hardly any leaves left, so leaves were glued to the trees to create the effect.
- The Trouble with Harry was the first of Hitchcock's several collaborations with composer Bernard Herrmann, and in a 1971 New York Times interview Hitchcock called the score his favorite of all his films.
- A cash-in song titled "The Trouble with Harry", written by Floyd Huddleston with Herb Wiseman and Mark McIntyre, charted in 1956 in a version by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and a rival one by Les Baxter, despite having no connection to the film.
- Hitchcock and John Ferren, the artist who made Sam Marlowe's on-screen paintings, enjoyed their first collaboration so much that Ferren was invited years later to design the "special sequence" in Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo.
- The paintings by the character Sam Marlowe were made by American abstract expressionist John Ferren, who was present during principal photography in Vermont and instructed John Forsythe in the correct painting technique for his on-screen work.
