Paramount Pictures
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Universal)
An elderly and rotund Edmund Gwenn discovers a body while hunting in the woods near his Vermont home. He believes he accidentally shot him and tries to hide the body. Several characters pass by preventing him from doing so, including the dead man's wife, Shirley MacLaine, a local artist, John Forsythe and a widow out for a stroll, Mildred Natwick. The two women have reason to believe they may have killed the man, while the artist gets involved when he falls in love with MacLaine. The body is buried and unearthed numerous times over the course of the day, but is finally examined by a local doctor played with comedic perfection by Dwight Marfield, who steals every scene. More a romantic comedy than mystery, which is not Hitchcock's strength, and Forsythe is annoying as the artist.
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