«I picked this film because from the vast filmography of Alfred Hitchcock it’s the one that has best stood my personal test of time. After the fake Miss Froy from «The Lady Vanishes» and the nightmare from «Spellbound» stopped seeming so frightening and the deft twists of the plot stopped being so awe-inspiring, Hitchcock simply appeared to me as a man with a great sense of humour and a certain taste for phisophical speculations, and «The Trouble with Harry» is the film where it manifests itself in the most tangible way. Some would consider this film as non hitchcockian, which is not true, because despite of the fact that it certainly stands out from the director’s filmography; it remains one hundred percent hitchcockian from the beginning to the end. The non-typical part is the genre itself, the film being a comedy, however the same hitchcockian humour, sometimes black, sometimes expressly discreet, is present in many other films by Hitch. An even bigger surprise is the fact that «The Trouble with Harry» is a pastoral film, although if we look closer we’ll see that there’s nothing surprising about it either, since Hitchcock has always excelled in painting nice, idyllic pictures that might be responsible for many people’s tendency to think of the crime as of something cosy and homy. In «The Trouble with Harry» Hitchcock takes us to a neat little New England town where everyone is busy burying and digging out a dead body that they found in the woods and that they call with a touching unceremoniousness by its name: Harry. Several people think that they are the one who killed Harry, which instead of undermining the cohesion of the group, gives rise to new relationships within it. Told like this, «The Trouble with Harry» may seem to be just another black comedy capitalizing on the theme of a frivolous attitude towards death, but that’s more complicated than that: more than any other Hitchcock’s films this one calls for different speculations, interpretations and theories. But let’s discuss them after the screening and in the meanwhile let me introduce you to Harry Warp, the corpse.»