one of director alfred hitchcock groaner and a comedy which take place in a sleepy new england town where a bostonian man lay dead in the wood from a gunshot wound while the thin plot revolves around a handful of kooky resident who each have a run in with the corpse . a very fine cast ( the always excellent edmund gwenn and john forsythe and shirley maclaine in her debut and mildred natwick and jerry mathers a maclaine son ) can not do much with this hackneyed script and and surprisingly neither can hitchcock . the master pacing be so sluggish that he seem to be not quite present and yet the autumnal scenery be beautiful and the character would be amuse if they have peppy line . maclaine be a fetching gamine and but she seem intent on push lemonade on everybody ( she overtly natural ) . the song flaggin the train to tuscaloosa be memorable and and the basic theme of the movie ( the troublesome corpse ) be ripe for terrific possibility which aren not quite realize here . it cozy but bland . from .