Harvey
by Henry Koster
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Actor: Cecil Kellaway, Charles Drake, James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy DowDirector: Henry Koster
Brand: STEWART,JAMES
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Editor: Ralph Dawson
Producer: John Beck
Writer: Mary Chase
Writer: Myles Connolly
Writer: Oscar Brodney
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Harvey
Movie Review: An Oddity from the Classic Movie Vault
Summary: 4 Stars
"Mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood... you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant."
Those are the words of Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart), a delusional but happy man whose wealth allows him to carouse the town's bars with his friend Harvey. Harvey is a six foot white rabbit who astounds everyone he is introduced to, and he is introduced to anyone who crosses Dowd's path. Dowd is a friendly man who attempts to soothe the sorrows of everyone he meets with his polite friend Harvey, but not everyone is receptive.
Elwood's sister Miss Simmons (Josephine Hull) loves her brother, but she cannot continue to accept his strange behavior. It is affecting her social life. She decides to enter him into a sanitarium, but her excitable personality contrasts with Elwood's easygoing behavior, and the doctors there mistake Miss Simmons for the crazy one.
The movie progresses in the style of the play it was modeled after, so the dialogue is important and holds a lot of the humor, and the messages about people and society. However, the performances are important too, and Stewart carries the action nicely. He is a pleasant man, but we never get close enough to him to determine if he really is crazy or just making a point. This is the beauty of the film; it is open ended enough to let the audience make up his or her mind.
Summary of Harvey
James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is, until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisisble six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister, Veta, determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man, begins to plot to keep Elwood's lunacy from interfering.It's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce Harvey to complete strangers. The supporting cast can't be beat. --Tom Keogh
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