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Harvey (1950)

Harvey (1950)

Comedy Fantasy

The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!

Release Date: 1950, December 4
Directors: Henry Koster
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal International Pictures
Cast: Norman Leavitt, James Stewart, Wallace Ford, Clem Bevans, Don Brodie, Pat Flaherty, Fess Parker, Maudie Prickett, Dick Wessel, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Drake, Jesse White

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:

brother sister relationship based on play or musical rabbit mental illness black and white mental institution imaginary friend police officer screwball comedy sanatorium commitment