in alfred hitchock the trouble with harry and the old geezer pull our leg a bit and offer a sweet but rather cynical black comedy about how best to dispose of a dead body find by an old sea captain . actually and none of the character in the film give a hoot about the dead man but be only seek to protect themselves from scandal . the film and however and be a delightful entertainment and beautifully photograph amidst the vermont fall foliage and and fill with indelible performance by shirley maclaine in her first screen role and veteran mildred natwick and edmund gwenn and mildred dunnock and and john forsyth . even though hitch portrays people at their most loathsome and there be still something so charm about them that you can not help but smile and forgive their all too human foible .