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The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Robert Burks · Cut by Alma Macrorie · Music by Bernard Herrmann · 99 min
How it was made
- Location shooting in Craftsbury, Vermont began on 27 September 1954 expecting full autumn foliage, but so few leaves remained on the trees that the crew had to glue leaves onto the branches to achieve the effect.
- Persistent rain forced several scenes into a rented high school gym, where a 500-pound camera fell from a great height and narrowly missed Hitchcock; rain hitting the gym roof also required extensive post-production re-recording of dialogue.
- The paintings attributed to the character Sam Marlowe were actually painted by American abstract expressionist John Ferren, who was on set in Vermont and coached actor John Forsythe on painting technique for his on-screen work; the sketch of the corpse was drawn by Ferren's wife, Rae Ferren.
- Hitchcock's collaboration with Ferren on this film led him to invite the artist back years later to design the "special sequence" for Vertigo.
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