I'm watching "The Trouble With Harry" now on TCM. It's Hitchcock's comedy about a dead body that keeps showing up and stars Shirley MacLaine in one of her first roles.
I've seen it a few times before and was never crazy about it but what makes interesting now is that I only just realized that the young boy who plays MacLaine's son is none other than Jerry Mathers who would later gain fame as tv's Beaver in "Leave it to Beaver".
Here's what I wrote about it when I saw it last year:
Black comedy in which death is as overbearing as it would be in Vertigo, with Burks' cinematography bringing an autumnal reverence and the dialogue peppered with references back to the corpse causing problems; the difference is the matter-of-fact way in which everybody here goes about dealing with it. It should have been a lot funnier (especially with Edmund Gwenn, years after Hitchcock's The Skin Game) than it is, but the delivery is awkward for the most part. An interesting departure from material for which he was - and is - better known.
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