Review of The Trouble with Harry (1955) by Joel H — 25 Jul 2018

The trouble with Hitchcock is that when he tries to do pure comedy it feels so forced, not at all like many of his best thrillers, which have some great natural comedy that emerge organically from the situation or from the witty personality of a character.

No such luck here and so we are left with a comedy drama that has precious little comedy or drama; we don't even get Hitchcock usual inventive visual flourishes to give us something to find interesting.

Instead we do get the small mercy of the beautiful background of Vermont and some often-sweet romances but little investment in the titular mystery.