Harvey
The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!
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- Fantasy
- Comedy
Overview
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Keywords
- mental illness
- imaginary friend
- black and white
- mental institution
- police officer
- based on play or musical
- screwball comedy
- brother sister relationship
- rabbit
- commitment
- sanatorium
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 4, 1950
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal International Pictures
- Cast
- James Stewart,Josephine Hull,Peggy Dow,Charles Drake,Cecil Kellaway,Victoria Horne,Jesse White,William H. Lynn,Wallace Ford,Nana Bryantand 10 more
- Director
- Henry Koster
- Producer
- John Beck
- Cinematography
- William H. Daniels
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0042546