Review of The Trouble with Harry (1955) by Ken S — 02 Sep 2014

Alfred Hitchcock directs this black comedy about a small town in which a dead body is found, and everyone is just trying to figure out what to do with it. It starts with a little boy finding it, then an old hunter, who thinks he accidentally shot the man when hunting rabbits.

..then people just stumble across the body and seemingly ignore it, before the old man is able (with some help) to bury the body...then unbury it, then bury it again. It is a comedy of errors with Hitchcock's wicked sense of macabre humor, something that is present in a lot of his films, but taken to it's most extremes here.

The fact that Hitch was able to make a comedy about death and a corpse that just seems like such a casual nuisance to the whole cast of characters in the 1950s is just amazing to me. He was great at pushing the envelope for what you can get away with, and the 50s could be so bland in Hollywood, it is great that a man like Hitchcock was keeping the cinema alive with such inventive crazy and fun movies.