Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- sanatorium
- based on play or musical
- imaginary friend
- mental institution
- black and white
- police officer
- rabbit
- mental illness
- screwball comedy
- commitment
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Elwood P. Dowd
Josephine Hull
Veta Louise Simmons
Peggy Dow
Miss Kelly
Charles Drake
Dr. Sanderson
- Cecil Kellaway — Dr. Chumley
- Victoria Horne — Myrtle Mae Simmons
- Jesse White — Wilson
- William H. Lynn — Judge Gaffney (as William Lynn)
- Wallace Ford — The Taxi Driver
- Nana Bryant — Mrs. Hazel Chumley
- Grayce Mills — Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet (as Grace Mills)
- Clem Bevans — Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer
- Harvey — Himself
- Don Brodie — Mailman (uncredited)
- Pat Flaherty — Policeman (uncredited)
- Directed
- Henry Koster
- Written
- Oscar Brodney, Myles Connolly
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 690 ratings
- Studio
- Universal International Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
