It flopped disastrously, nearly killed Hitchcock and has been scorned for decades. But it's time The Trouble With Harry was recognised as a surrealist masterpiece
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On October 12 1954, Alfred Hitchcock was shooting on location in Morrisville, Vermont, when the overhead bracket supporting a VistaVision camera snapped. Weighing 850lb – the same as a car – the camera unit dropped through the air, swiped the director's shoulder and rolled over, pinning a crew member briefly to the ground. It was the nearest the master himself came to violent death: just a few inches to the side and it would have smashed that unmistakable domed head like a peach and provided cinema theorists with any number of irresistible, macabre metaphors. Hitchcock calmly ordered filming to continue with a replacement camera. Later he packed up, however, declaring himself unsatisfied with the weather in Vermont, and moved the shoot...
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On October 12 1954, Alfred Hitchcock was shooting on location in Morrisville, Vermont, when the overhead bracket supporting a VistaVision camera snapped. Weighing 850lb – the same as a car – the camera unit dropped through the air, swiped the director's shoulder and rolled over, pinning a crew member briefly to the ground. It was the nearest the master himself came to violent death: just a few inches to the side and it would have smashed that unmistakable domed head like a peach and provided cinema theorists with any number of irresistible, macabre metaphors. Hitchcock calmly ordered filming to continue with a replacement camera. Later he packed up, however, declaring himself unsatisfied with the weather in Vermont, and moved the shoot...
- 7/3/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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