Harvey (1950)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Henry Koster

Writers: Oscar Brodney, Mary Chase

Cinematographer: William Daniels

Composer: Frank Skinner

Cast: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Victoria Horne, Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, William Lynn, Harvey

In this riotous, perfectly acted farce, Veta and Myrtle Mae Simmons, whose social life is in tatters due to the ever presence of their delusional brother/uncle Elwood P. Dowd, who spends his afternoons in the town’s bars introducing his 6’3½” rabbit friend Harvey to any and everyone, decide to have him committed – a task which is easier said than done when you’re more than a little nutty yourself. Iain.Stott

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