The Trouble With Harry
1955, NR, 99 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers.

Universal Hitchcock Series: Hitchcock’s comedic charms shine in this delightful story about a corpse that just won’t stay buried. In the interim, the dead body brings two couples together in love and gets a whole town hopping. In her film debut, Shirley MacLaine is a treat.

This article appears in August 20 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.