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The Trouble with Harry (1955)

★ 7.0 · 896 ratings on TMDB

A different kind of kick-the-bucket comedy!

The Trouble with Harry poster★ 7.0

The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.

DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
CastBarry Macollum, Dwight Marfield, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry Mathers, John Forsythe, Mildred Dunnock
GenresComedy, Mystery
The emergence reading

The Trouble with Harry keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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