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The trouble with Harry is that he has turned up dead in the woods, and there is no shortage of kindly, eccentric residents of the nearby village willing to confess to accidentally killing him. Shirley MacLaine is spritely and delightful in her screen debut, her casting a last-minute snap decision by director Alfred Hitchcock. The wonderfully wry cast includes Edmund Gwenn as a retired sea captain, Mildred Natwick as the spinster who is sweet on him, John Forsythe as a boho painter and LEAVE IT TO BEAVER’s Jerry Mathers as MacLaine’s young son. DIR Alfred Hitchcock; SCR John Michael Hayes, from the novel by Jack Trevor Story. U.S., 1955, color, 99 min. RATED PG