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The action in The Trouble with Harry takes place during a sun-filled autumn in the Vermont countryside. The fall foliage and the beautiful scenery around the village, as well as Bernard Herrmann's light-filled score, all set an idyllic tone. The story is about how nine residents of a small Vermont village react when the dead body of a man named ...
- $1.2 million
- Bernard Herrmann
- Alfred Hitchcock
- September 30, 1955 (Barre, Vermont)
- BEFORE IT WAS A FILM, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY WAS A SHORT COMIC NOVEL. As with many of his films, Alfred Hitchcock found his inspiration in a novel. Unlike most of this other work, however, this one was a humorous book—not a horror or thriller.
- IT WAS A BOX OFFICE FLOP. Apparently people weren’t interested in Hitchcockian humor at the time: Despite the fact that it was made on a small budget, the movie lost $500,000 at the box office.
- IT WAS SHIRLEY MACLAINE’S FILM DEBUT. She may be a Hollywood legend now, but in 1955, Shirley MacLaine was an ingenue chorus girl. Though Hitchcock had wanted his mainstay Grace Kelly in the role, she was unavailable.
- STUDIO HEADS CALLED MACLAINE TO TELL HER TO STOP EATING SO MUCH. Not everyone was charmed by MacLaine. Horrifyingly, the actress was subject to a call from the president of Paramount, who was unhappy with her appearance after reviewing film.
Feb 6, 2016 · Tribute to Bernard Herrmann. 24 November 2009. Los Angeles, CA, USA. The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Khyber Rifles, The Trouble with Harry, The Naked and the Dead, North by Northwest, Jason and the Argonauts, It's Alive Lawrence Stoffel California State University Northridge Wind Ensemble. Source: Lawrence Stoffel.
The subject is his latest Bernard Herrmann production for Varese Sarabande, The Trouble With Harry, featuring Joel McNeely conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This 43-minute CD is the first-ever release of the entire score for the lesser-known but highly entertaining Alfred Hitchcock film (one of the director’s rare comedies).
- Kurt Luchs
Jul 2, 2012 · All the while Bernard Herrmann's unsettling score offers premonitions of his Psycho theme. The boy hears shouts in the undergrowth, and then finds a man's dead body with blood trickling from what ...
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The Trouble with Harry (1955) Offbeat, often hilarious black comedy courtesy of Mr. Hitchcock and scripter John Michael Hayes about bothersome corpse causing all sorts of problems for peaceful neighbors in New England community. Gwenn is fine as usual, MacLaine appealing in her first film. Beautiful locations, whimsical score (his first for ...
Joel McNeely conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
