Sunday, 24 January 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – HARVEY (1950)

 

Harvey is a Classic comedy-drama film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name and, directed by Henry Koster.

It’s the story of Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) a whimsical middle-aged man who makes friends with a Pooka, a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit that only Elwood can see.

In his innocence he makes no secret of his friendship with Harvey and proudly introduces him to everyone he meets as his best friend which is why his sister Veta Louise (Josephine Hull), Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit as a friend, tries to commit him to a mental institution.

However, although he is thought by his family to be insane, in reality he may be wiser than any of them knows, and Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family to mend its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne and William H. Lynn also star in this wonderful Classic favourite.

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