81% (3)  The Trouble with Harry  99 min,  PG,  [Comedy, Mystery]  [Alfred Hitchcock]  [03 Oct 1955]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 71%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 90%,   Metacritic: 74%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 nominations.
Actors:  Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Dunnock, Mildred Natwick, Shirley MacLaine, Shirley MacLaine
Writer:  John Michael Hayes (screenplay), Jack Trevor Story (based on the novel by)
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Plot:  There is a dead well-dressed man in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Captain Albert Wiles, who stumbles across the body and finds by the man's identification that his name is Harry Worp, believes he accidentally shot Harry dead while he was hunting rabbits. Captain Wiles wants to hide the body as he feels it is an easier way to deal with the situation than tell the authorities. While Captain Wiles is in the adjacent forest, he sees other people stumble across Harry, most of whom don't seem to know him or care or notice that he's dead. One person who does see Captain Wiles there is spinster Ivy Gravely, who vows to keep the Captain's secret about Harry. Captain Wiles also Secretly sees a young single mother, Jennifer Rogers, who is the one person who does seem to know Harry and seems happy that he's dead. Later, another person who stumbles across both Harry and Captain Wiles is struggling artist Sam Marlowe, to who Captain Wiles tells the entire story of what he has seen thus far. Over the course of the day, several revelations come to light that question if Captain Wiles actually killed Harry. Sam, Mrs. Rogers, Captain Wiles and Miss Gravely's individual and collective actions in the matter of Harry take into account friendship, self-preservation, the path of least resistance, love and a lot of realizations about what their past actions will mean. Their work may all be for naught if Deputy Sheriff Calvin Wiggs, the closest thing to law enforcement in their town, finds out about Harry.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this film, Jerry Mathers stumbles upon Harry's corpse in the woods. Mathers alerts his mother Shirley MacLaine, who recognizes Harry as her ex-husband. Later on, retired sea captain Edmund Gwenn comes across the moribund Harry. Both MacLaine and Gwenn have reason to believe that they're responsible for Harry's demise.
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80% (2)  Daisy Miller  91 min,  G,  [Comedy, Drama, Romance]  [Peter Bogdanovich]  [24 Jan 1975]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
Actors:  Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Mildred Natwick
Writer:  Frederic Raphael (screenplay), Henry James (story)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, French, Italian    Country:  USA
Plot:  In this version of Henry James' novella "Daisy Miller", a young, bright and bubbly 19th Century American girl on her Grand Tour of Europe meets a fellow American, Frederick Winterbourne. Winterbourne is shocked by Daisy's modern behavior toward life, and spends his time with her trying to figure out if she's having innocent fun or on the path to becoming a fallen woman. Along the way, Winterbourne's judgment is helped and hindered by the other people in Daisy's life. Is Daisy really naive or naughty?
Rotten Tomatoes:   In the late 19th century, a young American woman travels amongst European high society, and sparks a number of conflicts and scandals with her brazenly flirtatious behavior. This period drama is an adaptation of the classic novella by Henry James.
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79% (2)  The Enchanted Cottage  91 min,  Approved,  [Drama, Fantasy, Romance]  [John Cromwell]  [29 Jun 1945]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 76%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 83%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Dorothy McGuire, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Robert Young
Writer:  DeWitt Bodeen, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Arthur Wing Pinero (play)
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Plot:  A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Grab a box of hankies and curl up for a night of jerked tears and warm fuzzies with Enchanted Cottage, the romantic and melodramatic tale of a horribly disfigured WW II vet who finds love and renewal at the terribly plain, wallflowery hands of a young spinster. Knowing that society is incapable of appreciating the mutually regarded beauty within each of the lovers, they retire to the romantic seclusion of a lonely cottage in New England. The plot is taken from a romantic play by Arthur Pineroi and was filmed before in the mid '20s.
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78% (2)  Barefoot in the Park  106 min,  G,  [Comedy, Romance]  [Gene Saks]  [25 May 1967]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 70%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 83%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 nominations.
Actors:  Charles Boyer, Jane Fonda, Mildred Natwick, Robert Redford
Writer:  Neil Simon (play), Neil Simon (screenplay)
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Plot:  New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have just gotten married. He is a stuffed shirt just starting his career as a lawyer. She is an independently minded free spirit who prides herself on doing the illogical purely out of a sense of adventure, such acts as walking through Washington Square Park barefoot when it's 17°F outside. Their six day honeymoon at the Plaza Hotel shows that they can get to know each other easily in the biblical sense. But they will see if they can get to know each other in their real life when they move into their first apartment, a cozy (in other words, small), slightly broken down top floor unit in a five story walk-up. While Corie joyfully bounds up and down the stairs, Paul, always winded after the fact, hates the fact of having to walk up the six flights of stairs, if one includes the stairs that comprise the outside front stoop. Beyond the issues with the apartment itself, Paul and Corie will have to deal with an odd assortment of neighbors, most specifically eccentric senior Victor Velasco, who lives in the unusual attic and who would like to consider himself a dirty old man. Corie, worried about her single straight-laced mother Ethel Banks, wants to set her up with Victor. Without Corie or Paul truly realizing it, Ethel and Victor as a twosome is as illogical as Corie and Paul. What happens between Ethel and Victor may be a predictor if Corie and Paul's marriage can make it in the long run.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This wistful domestic comedy, set in Greenwich Village, centers on Paul and Corie Bretter. Paul is a button-down, uptight attorney while Corie is a free spirit. Chaos follows as Corie attempts to convince Paul to go with the flow, and he attempts to get her to settle down.
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70% (2)  Yolanda and the Thief  108 min,  APPROVED,  [Fantasy, Musical, Romance]  [Vincente Minnelli]  [23 Apr 1946]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 80%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Frank Morgan, Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Mildred Natwick
Writer:  Jacques Théry (story), Ludwig Bemelmans (story), Irving Brecher (screenplay)
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Plot:  Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at the time of its release, the film was a huge financial and critical failure. It has since become a cult film and cinematic cause celebre, revered by its adherents and condemned by its detractors. For the record, Fred Astaire stars as a suave but strangely unsympathetic con arstist Johnny Parkson Riggs, who convince sheltered South American heiress Yolanda (Lucille Bremer) that he's her guardian angel. Naturally, Johnny falls in love with Yolanda and tries to find a way to put an end to the scam job cooked up by himself and his partner-in-crime Victor Budlow Trout (Frank Morgan). Meanwhile, a mysterious character named Mr. Candle (Leon Ames) watches the proceedings with seemingly detached amusement (guess who he turns out to be!) With the exception of "Coffee Time", most of the film's musical numbers are forgettable; Astaire and Lucille Bremer dance well together, but generate none of the charisma necessary to sustain a whimsical tale of this nature. As for Bremer alone, her biggest scene takes place in an artfully arranged bubble bath; undeniably gorgeous, she frankly isn't much of an actress. It is difficult to assess Yolanda and the Thief pro or con; this is one film that is guaranteed to either delight or aggravate the viewer, with no "middle ground."
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50% (1)  The Kissing Bandit  100 min,  [Comedy, Musical, Western]  [Laslo Benedek]  [01 Jan 1949]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 50%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Frank Sinatra, J. Carrol Naish, Kathryn Grayson, Mildred Natwick
Writer:  John Briard Harding, Isobel Lennart
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Ricardo, son of a mexican bandit, becomes against his will a bandit. He falls in love with Theresa, the daughter of the governor, who is expecting tax collectors from spain. Ricardo sees a good chance there.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this comedy, a young man journeys to California to run his recently deceased father's inn and is shocked to discover that his father was a kissing bandit. The members of his father's old gang then convince the fellow to follow in his father's footsteps.
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