We’ve all heard about murders being committed whether it’s
drowning, shooting, or stabbing someone. Either way it’s all very gruesome and
disturbing, but what would make it even more disturbing would be the thought
that you might be the murderer.
One morning in a small quiet town somewhere in New England a
retired sea captain is out in the woods hunting rabbits. He fires two shots but
all he manages to hit is an old rusted can and a sign where the bullet went
through it. On his way back home the captain makes a shocking discovery, he
finds a dead man lying on the ground with a fresh cut on the man’s fore head.
The captain was frightened because he believed that maybe one of the two shots
he fired must’ve killed him.
The captain checks the body for any identification and finds
that the dead man’s name is Harry Worp. Harry Worp wasn’t from there, but he
came there to get his wife back. His wife was Jennifer Roger’s and she despised
Harry. She only married him because he was the brother of her first late
husband and she wanted her unborn child to have a father. But after seeing what
Harry was really like she decided to run away and change her name. Harry
manages to find her but when he comes to the front door Jennifer hits him over
the head with a milk bottle. As she put it, she says she hit him silly and that
he went away in a stumble and that he was saying that he’d find his wife. The next day (the same day the captain finds
Harry) Arnie, who is Jennifer’s little boy, finds Harry too and goes home to
get his mother. Unlike the captain, Jennifer was rather pleased with how she
found Harry.
After Harry got hit
in the head by that milk bottle he ran into Miss Gravely who was doing an early
morning hike. He swore at her and insisted that she was his wife. He grabbed her and she fought back. During
the struggle one of her hiking shoes came off, she grabbed it and used the heel
of the shoe and struck him on the head with it. And after she ran into the
captain and saw that he believed he killed Harry, she felt a little relieved
thinking that she wouldn’t be the one to blame. But she also felt guilty that
someone else would take the rap for something she might have done. And if the
three of them didn’t have enough problems already, when they try to burry Harry
they get stuck in a situation where they keep digging him back up again.
This was directed by the terrifyingly genius Alfred Hitchcock
and this film is known as a black comedy which I believe is also a good way to
describes Hitchcock’s sense of humor. This film was based on the novel “The
Trouble with Harry,” written by Jack Trevor Story. The movie was released in
1955 starring Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, and Jerry Mathers as Arnie, who
will later on be known as the iconic Beaver from televisions “Leave it to
Beaver.” So after reading this which one of the three do you believe killed
Harry?
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