HARVEY
(Universal-International) ‘THE success of Harvey, which by all accounts was a riot when it was produced first as a stage-play on Broadway, depends on the ability of a gentle and amiable eccentric, Elwood P. Dowd (here played by James Stewart), to convince, the audience of the existence of his invisible familiar, Warvey, a 6ft. 344 in, rabbit. If he does so, then he
is sane and the attempts of his relatives to have him "put away" are acceptable comedy, since Elwood has the edge on them all the time. But if he doesn’t convince you of Harvey’s existence (and in spite of sOme_ camera _ tricks Stewart didn’t convince me) then Elwood is just a harmless lunatic-and no one can laugh comfortably at lunacy, however convivial the lunatic may be. But though I found the first half of this film a little disturbing for that reason, the second half (where the final discomfiture of other characters jg the source of ‘the fun) was well worth waiting for. Among the discomfited, Josephine Hull and Cecil Kellaway are outstanding.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 19
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