Afred Hitchcock: ****The Trouble with Harry (1955)

 Here is a humorous take on death, which does not turn out to be murder. He was bonked in the head by a couple women, and a man thinks he may have shot him while hunting.  They bury him and then unbury him several times, and then finally leave him to be found as he passed away of natural causes.  This is actually a sweet romantic comedy with a corpse.  The corpse is the husband of Jennifer Rogers (Shirley MacLaine).  They were estranged and when he came to the door she hit him with a milk bottle.  When we first come upon the corpse, Captain Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn) was hunting rabbits and thought she shot him.  Ivy Gravely (Mildred Natwick) also did him a harm as he attacked her and she hit him with her shoe.  Lastly our artist, Sam Marlowe (John Forsythe) sketches him.  They think they are in the clear with him buried nicely; however Marlowe and Rogers fall in love and want to get married.  They can't with Harry in the ground as it takes several years to declare someone diseased after they disappear.  So up he comes.  This time he sees a doctor who says he died of a heart attack.  Jerry Mathers, who would later play the Beaver in "Leave it to Beaver" plays the son of Rogers, who is confused as to time, but does a good job of being a curious boy.  

Movie Review: *Being There (1979)

1979 *This is one of the movies I wish I had not watched.  The ending is just gross.  The idea of misjudging someone who doesn't read for an economic genius gets old pretty fast.  Stars Shirley MacLaine and Peter Sellers.

Actress: Shirley MacLain: Movies

1970 ***^Two Mules for Sister Sara: Maclaine stars as Sister Sara and Clint Eastwood as Hogan.  This is set around the French invasion of Mexico, and the repulse by the Mexicans.  (See Cinco de Mayo which was in 1862.)  It is a Sergio Leone film and has that feel.  MacLaine starts as a nun, but in reality is much different.  The face the French with a group of Mexican soldiers.

1979 *Being There. This is one of the movies I wish I had not watched.  The ending is just gross.  The idea of misjudging someone who doesn't read for an economic genius gets old pretty fast.  Stars Shirley MacLaine and Peter Sellers.