The Trouble with Harry (1955 Alfred Hitchcock)

John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine (21, charming), Mildred Natwick, Edmund Gwenn

Looks absolutely sensational on Blu-Ray (Robert Burks on camera). Was Hitch missing the English autumn?

Wonderful script: John Michael Hayes - also Rear Window - from a novel by Jack Trevor Story (not a bad name for a novelist). The line "What seems to be the trouble, captain?" drily delivered from Natwick to Gwenn as he hauls the corpse, is unbeatable. Q thinks it's Hitch's sweetest film, and she is as usual right.

The group of gravediggers at dusk makes me think of Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.. and it could also easily be a Coen Bros. film.  Influential, and as usual, experimental (no bad guy and no suspense!)

Edmund Gwenn's line "The next thing you know they'll be televising the whole thing" is quite ironic.

Also with Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers (the boy), Royal Dano (sherrif), Dwight Marfield (book reading doctor). The latter character's behaviour may well be a reference to James Williamson's 1905 short An Interesting Story.