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Released
1955 · FILM

The Trouble with Harry

When a corpse turns up in a sleepy Vermont town, a nervous group of locals scramble to conceal their alleged guilt before the truth—and the law—catch up with them.

“A different kind of kick-the-bucket comedy!”

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
John Michael Hayes, Jack Trevor Story
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
99 min
ComedyMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alma MacrorieShot by Robert BurksScored by Bernard Herrmann

Box Office

1955 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$7.0M

Budget$1.2M
Worldwide gross$7.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Immer Ärger mit Harryde
  • Mais qui a tué Harry ?fr
  • La congiura degli innocentiit

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