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Harry and the Butler

1961 · 101 min

A gentle, warm-hearted comedy that feels like a cozy visit with old friends, full of small charms and easy laughs.

Overview
A gentle comedy offering the promise of easy social consensus. Harry (Helmuth) is a simple old-time shop porter offered a chance at self-realisation when he's bequeathed a sum by an unknown relative (via several levels of fiscal blood suckers). He decides to engage a butler to take good care of him for a time. This is a man of distinguished upper class service, but a generous nature which happily integrates with Harry's small but colourful world of drinking buddies and crackpot neighbourhood kids.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • class
  • found family
  • identity
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
family, comedy
Directed by
Bent Christensen
Starring
Osvald Helmuth, Ebbe Rode, Gunnar Lauring, Lily Broberg, Olaf Ussing, Palle Kirk, Lise Ringheim, Henning Moritzen
Runtime
101 min
Country
Denmark
Languages
Danish

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