Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry Returns to the Big Screen in Brattleboro — Plus Community Conversation
More than 70 years after Alfred Hitchcock came to Vermont to make The Trouble with Harry, the film returns to the big screen at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro on Sunday, November 8 at 2 p.m.
Shot in Vermont in 1954 and released in 1955, The Trouble with Harry is Hitchcock at his most unusual: a darkly funny story about a body discovered on a hillside and the increasingly complicated reactions of the neighbors who find him. The film stars Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick and Jerry Mathers, with a score by Bernard Herrmann.
The screening will be followed by a community conversation moderated by Vermont filmmaker Bess O’Brien (Every Day Big and Small, withJeanine B. Frost, Southern Vermont writer/director/actor and AFI alum, andSteven DeRosa, Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes scholar and author of Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.
The conversation will look beyond Hitchcock to the people and creative choices behind the film — beginning with Jack Trevor Story’s original novel and John Michael Hayes’s screenplay adaptation — while inviting the audience to bring their own memories, reactions and interpretations into the room.
This isn’t a lecture after a movie. It’s meant to be a conversation: about the film, Vermont, adaptation, authorship, Hitchcock, and what The Trouble with Harry looks like more than seven decades later.
Sunday, November 8 · 2 p.m.
Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro
Film screening + community conversation
🎬 Watch the original trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+trouble+with+harry+1955+trailer
Part of On Goldfish Pond Creative’s Hollywood, VT series, in partnership with Latchis Arts.
Come for Hitchcock. Stay for the neighbors.
