Harvey (1950)
Genre: Fantasy / Comedy
Duration: 104 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Henry Koster
Stars: James Stewart, Josephine Hull and Peggy Dow
IMDb score:
7,9 (61.007)
Releasedate: 4 December 1950
Harvey plot
"The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!"
His sister is ashamed of Elwood P. Dowd, because he has an invisible 2 meter rabbit with him, named Harvey. So she tries to keep him out of the way in order to sell her daughter. However, Elwood shows up and messes things up. She wants to put him in an institution, but there they think she is crazy and he is not.
Actors and actresses
Elwood P. Dowd
Veta Louise Simmons
Miss Kelly
Dr. Sanderson
Dr. Chumley
Myrtle Mae Simmons
Wilson
Judge Gaffney (as William Lynn)
The Taxi Driver
Mrs. Hazel Chumley
Reviews & comments
wendyvortex
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- 5290 messages
- 7309 votes
Nice comedy, but tempo-wise a bit too slow by today's standards and James Stewart is a bit too much of a wimpy good guy.
Plot itself is great...and Harvey especially!!
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Mescaline
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- 7116 messages
- 3388 votes
James Stewart makes this movie worth watching! Unfortunately, the other characters were a lot less interesting and the sister was over-acting quite a bit.
I really like the plot invented and I think it's original and fresh for 1950, unfortunately in my view the film does too little with this fact and it depends too much on Stewart.
The invisible character Harvey should have had more screen time! 
Here's a remake of it, maybe it made better use of the plot? Although I have my doubts whether Stewart's acting performance is so easy to match. 
2.5*
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31272 messages
- 5512 votes
The acting is not always good I must say. James Stewart is charming in the lead role. Remarkable that Josephine Hull (Veta) just won an Oscar. Other times... On the other hand, I did have to laugh regularly, so somehow it worked. Especially how Stewart's character actually gets away with everything.
The film is clearly based on a comedy play. And as a fan I like that. Perhaps a little rest here and there would have been good. Harvey isn't a high-flyer, but it sticks around better than I expected. And more than it actually deserves.
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