I am 70 and I have loved this movie since I first saw it as a child. Elwood is indeed innocence, but innocence learned. "...well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.", and "I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with" are things that he has learned. They are still guidelines for my life. I'm glad you have this film in your life. The more you watch this film the more you will love it.

@bluebird3281

8 ай бұрын

"I think you're making a mistake about the whiskey but it's your two weeks".

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

i envy people who experienced the past era... everything was meaningful back then

@orlandoaugustostock4578

8 ай бұрын

​@@MJoy4FunHave tou seen Lord Of the Rings?

Another really funny oldie is Arsenic & Old Lace. Cary Grant & the lady playing the aunt here are in it.

This was actor Jimmy Stewart's favorite movie he made. Love this movie.

I've loved this movie for decades. James Stewart was wonderful in every movie. Yours is the first reaction I've seen to Harvey and I thank you so much! I always enjoy your reactions. Again, thanks.

@tinatidmore3809

8 ай бұрын

Ditto

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

Same here! glad you enjoyed our reaction! Jimmy Stewart such a classic actor!

Great reaction!!!! Josephine Hull, who played Veta, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her part in this film. She also originated the role on Broadway in 1944.

@HeartlandHunny

8 ай бұрын

My favorite of her performances is in Arsenic & Old Lace as Abby Brewster. She plays such a sweet, endearing old lady that it’s so easy to forgive all her many crimes. 😂

OMG I love this film Harvey starring by James Stewart. Thank you guys

I've loved this movie since I was a kid, my mom was a huge Jimmy Stewart fan. And I've seen it many times but it honestly never even occurred to me that when, at the end, Harvey stays with Dr. Chumley, then moments later comes back to Elwood, that Harvey had stopped time to take Dr. Chumley to Akron! 😯 That makes total sense! I always thought he just changed his mind in minutes. Wow, that makes it an even happier ending, thanks for that insight. 👍

@meredithsmyth7059

8 ай бұрын

PS- My mom actually saw James Stewart star in "Harvey" on Broadway.

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

i know right???

@AnnaB22

8 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. After all this time, that callback about stopping time never entered my mind. I love that thought! Great movie and reaction.

I have always loved this movie. It brings a tear to my eye because of the kindness and calmness of Elwood. If this world were filled with more people like him, the world would be a much better place. Harvey would be welcome too. James Stewart was such an amazing actor.

Jimmy Stewart was so great.

This movie is so underrated. Always a good time. Josephine Hull played the character of Veta the best I've ever seen. (Don't drink with púcas tall enough to join the NBA. They'll get you into all sorts of high jinx and shenanigans.

Finally someone reacting to "Harvey" !!!! So many people just pass it by...but it's always been a winner !

One of the best fairy tales ever filmed.

I first saw this as a play as a small child in the late 1970s before I was even aware of the film. Such a great film. I need a pookah friend. Everyone does.

Seriously, OMG. This is a childhood favorite!!! No one has reacted to this! Thanks guys 🥹

@renee7407

8 ай бұрын

Okay, Bringing Up Baby next!!

@HeartlandHunny

8 ай бұрын

@@renee7407I’ve been hoping they’ll watch Arsenic & Old Lace, but Bringing Up Baby is also a great shout!

Can you imagine what the whole world would be like if we were all PLEASANT like ELWOOD P. DOWD. Fantastic. Someone in the comments mentioned ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. That is another fantastic movie. If you two get a chance, watch it.

@HeartlandHunny

8 ай бұрын

Arsenic & Old Lace is one of my absolute favorite movies! I really hope they’ll react to it some day!

The only Film that I have ever seen that Makes us want to be a better person, to have what should be infuriating things happen & still be so kind and pleasant is a real accomplishment. Glad yall Enjoyed it.

Trivia: This movie was a favorite of John Landis, director and co-writer of The Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues was likely named as a salute. Also, in The Shawshank Redemption, Andy says that the "imaginary person" he created the false identity for in order to do the money laudering for the warden was a "second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit".

Glad you're checking some great movies that other channels don't usually watch.

@cindyknudson2715

5 ай бұрын

Have you seen _Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House_ ? Cary Grant and Myrna Loy.

12:28 The painting of James Stewart and Harvey-my stepfather (who married my mom when I was 21) had the identical painting in his living room. My mom explained that it was my stepfather's favorite movie and told me that the movie was called Harvey and it was about an invisible rabbit. I have a tremendous amount for my stepfather so I couldn't bring myself to see the movie until this reaction. My stepfather has been dead 30 years now, so this was a good goodbye.

@zimjun7

8 ай бұрын

It was the best play that my English teacher had put on!!! He always wanted to do it!!! See above for my comment....

@The_Dudester

8 ай бұрын

@@zimjun7 As I had stated, my stepfather married my mom when I was 21. He had four kids, who always had their hand out, even though they were older than me. My stepfather and I had a bond in that we were both Marines. The Marines teach you certain values, such as personal reliance. My step sister and I had both car accidents in the same week. I went and got car parts and personally fixed the damage to my car. My step sister, who had nearly identical damage to her car asked her dad for money to have someone else to fix it. He referred her to me. In response, she never spoke to me again. After that incident, he and I grew closer and his kids became distant to him. When I started college a couple of years later he would surprise me by occasionally calling me over and giving me a hundred bucks (starving college kids always need money and I'm sure he understood that as I worked my way through college and I never asked anyone for money). When he developed cancer he asked that I stay away as he didn't want me to see him waste away and he wanted me to remember him as he was. I respected his wishes. My one regret is that I wish I could have spent more time with him (when he was healthy). He was the father figure I needed and although he never said it out loud I know he was proud of me.

I have always loved this movie. It was first a stage play. While playing on the stage, a child in the audience kept yelling "There is no one there!" - LOL!! This was way back in the 1950s and they calmed the child down quickly!

One of the sweetest, most brilliant films ever! My mamá shared this with me as a seven year old and I’ve loved it ever since. Every now and then, we sit and watch this together. First time a 25 year old mother and her seven year old son and now a 78 year old mother and her 59 year old son.

@cindyknudson2715

5 ай бұрын

For a second, I thought you meant that every now and then you and *Harvey* sit and watch it together. 😄

It's a Wonderful Life was Mr. Stewart's first movie after serving as a Army Air Corp bomber pilot in WWII European Theater. His emotional acting came in part from the depths of his experience in the war. There is a picture floating around the internet that showed him entering service and a picture of him after his service. You see a happen young man going in and a man who has been worn down by the worse that comes of war coming out. In Harvey, his appearance is much like his before picture, for some who served time maybe a healer.

@anthonymullen6300

8 ай бұрын

A remarkable performance by Jimmy in "It's a Wonderful Life" should have won an Oscar for that performance, Jimmy Stewart was haunted by the friends he lost and the people he killed in the bombings of Germany, wonderful actor and a greater human being.

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

so deep and sad...

@avidavid9237

8 ай бұрын

@@MJoy4Fun As further respect for Mr. Stewart for his service, is the following. 1. First major actor to volunteer to serve in WWII 2. Promoted from private to colonel in 4 years during his war time service. 3. Total service 26 years (1942-1968) retired as a Brig. General. To the public he was the movie star, but as a citizen he distinguished himself by his long service in the military. A military service that was all volunteer, you have to respect that.

I saw you were reviewing Harvey and I felt like it was Christmas morning! I have been wishing for someone to choose this movie. I LOVE IT, and I hape you enjoyed it too!

@tinatidmore3809

8 ай бұрын

ditto

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

So glad you rediscovered a classic. There are so many out there that are all but forgotten. If you'd like to check out a couple more I'd love to recommend Arsenic and Old Lace and Bringing Up Baby, both with Cary Grant. Thanks for the reaction.

@richruksenas5992

8 ай бұрын

And Arsenic and Old Lace also featured Josephine Hull, Ellwood's aunt.

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

I'll check it out! thx!

so glad you reviewed this film it's a classic comedy and always one of my dad's favorite films there are no actors like jimmy stewart anymore⚛😀

@richelliott9320

8 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks comes close

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd

8 ай бұрын

I second that emotion⚛😀@@richelliott9320

I watched this movie because I find the concept of this movie strange but when I finally saw it. I was amazed what a special movie it is.

Thanks for reacting to this, I’ve loved it since I was a kid! The aunt in this movie is also in one of my absolute favorite movies, Arsenic & Old Lace! I really hope y’all react to that one someday. It’s such a funny movie! It stars Cary Grant, who is the star of North by Northwest, and is directed by Frank Capra, who is the director for It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s another one like Harvey that started as a stage play and then was adapted into a movie.

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

glad you liked it! we had a blast! have a great week!

Oh! My Gawd!!! I played in this!!! In our High School. My English teacher had always wanted to do this one!!!! We were on stage in April of 1969! I played Myrtle May. ( I think I did a better job ) I was more awkward and if I had done it again, I would have worn my glasses, NOT my contact lenses. My teacher chose a certain guy to do Elwood. His voice was perfect, that's why. Yes! "Elwood P!" let me give you one of my cards." I LOVED IT!!! We had so MUCH FUN!!!!!!!

I loved your reactions and your thoughts on the movie. It's one of my favorite movies. Elwood P. Dowd is one of my favorite characters in all of the movies I've seen. "In this world, you must be oh so very smart or oh so very pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant, and you may quote me." Kindness, friendliness, and warmness inspired by fantasy is better than cold, harsh, mean reality any day. That's the theme of the movie as I see it, and that's why I love the movie.

Jimmy Stewart is my second favourite actor. My favourite Jimmy Stewart film is “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”

This is a great movie. I had a small TV (9 inch) and it was picking up this movie 200 miles away through the air (that rarely happens) so I watched a bit of it, and later in life, I found this on VHS and watched it, and loved it. I watch lots of old movies,

James Stewart was a wonderful actor. So great movies to see with him as a star. He had a very interesting life and it is worth checking him out on the net. Add to that is that he was a very nice, humble and gentle man in real life.

This was my dad’s favourite movie. He’d always quote the line about “I’m working for the government, making licence plates” 😝😝

Never understood the reference in Shawshank that Andy made to "Harvey the rabbit" until now.

You guys are great for having such a unique movie to react to~ I remember seeing this wacky film in college-- the aunt played by Josephine Hull is hilarious, I still remember the way she talks

@HeartlandHunny

8 ай бұрын

Have you ever seen Arsenic & Old Lace? Josephine Hull is absolutely hilarious in that movie!

@Tribdinosaur

8 ай бұрын

@@HeartlandHunny I have not, but I've heard about it on Golden Girls

Absolutely love your reaction. Spot on with my view of this movie. Thanks.

bogart and jimmy stewart are my 2 favorite actors. stewart could play in comedies or dramas, westerns or modern themes, he could play tough guys and gentle souls, like elwood p. dowd. one of his best roles was in a 1939 film called "mr. smith goes to washington." he starred in several hitchcock films. sadly stewart and bogart never appeared together on screen. thanks for the upload.

My Daddy used to laugh so hard when that woman would start Hop, Hop, Hop, Hop, Hipity Hopping.

I have loved this movie since I was a kid. And when I was little, because my imagination was in constant overdrive, I could totally see Harvey. Also, my parents had a white cat when they were first married named Pooka.

One of my moms favorite movies...R.I.P Mom...Thanks for reacting....Also James Stewart was moms favorite actor.

My all-time favourite movie.

9:45: This is the nickname of my old family cat: "Pooka-Tail"

There's a reference to "Harvey" in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

Jimmy Stewart attended Princeton University to become an architect . After acting in some college plays he switched his major to drama . His father who owned a hardware store in Pennsylvania put Jimmy's college diploma in the stores front window.

The character, Elwood P. Dowd, is most euphemistically referred to as a “tippler.” He’s an alcoholic who has decided to secede from the workaday world and pass the time in a kind, boozy haze with Harvey, hurting no one but also oblivious!

@Lethgar_Smith

8 ай бұрын

It's a nice life if you have an inheritance to live off of. Most of them live on the streets though.

29:45 Mark! Thumb Up #574! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! ☺️ Notes: You two make me miss my college life, because I had a roommate whose fiancée was from the Philippines! 😊 This movie is one of my all-time favorites! When I was a boy, James Stewart's television series was still on. It was in color too! We got to see Harvey too! I saw that before I finally got to see the movie. 🐰 I remember being in a forum and one of the members used "Pooka" as his screen name in honor of "Harvey". His avatar was the color version from the series. James Stewart would be a guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" but he was called "Jimmy". He would debut his poetry on Johnny's show. As well as his paintings. Stewart and Carson both served in the military. Carson was the lower ranking one as a lieutenant in the Navy, while Stewart was a military pilot in the Army. Carson's sidekick, Ed, outranked them both though, as a brigadier general in the Army! 🫡

I love this! Much better on stage!!

@juaneliasartaviamoya966

8 ай бұрын

You know, Josephine Hull (Vita) got the oscar to best supporting actress for this!!! ❤

This always reminds me of Mirical on 32 or 34th Street... and the other way around too. lolol This is an oldie but goodie. There are a few of them that are timeless. Alfred Hitchcock had a few good ones back in the day. The original Dr WHO series started back in the 50s. Bunch of good stuff back then. Twilight Zone, They made a Twilight Zone movie but no clue when it came out. 80's 90's really don't care to google it either. It creeped me out as a kid.

This is a real treat for the uninitiated to see this film. It’s not likely anyone who has seen it would have guessed what kind of movie they were in for. Not just the humor, but the innocence of Elwood.

I have never seen this movie. You guys surprised me with this one. It’s very rare for movie reactors to go this far back in time to watch and react to a movie. Lol. I love it. I have never seen Harvey. It’s a real good movie.

A pooka is an Irish fairy. Not all of them are as friendly as Harvey. One appears in Darby O'Gill and the Little People, which I think you would enjoy.

thanks so much for reacting to this classic, such an underrated film!

In the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," there is a reference to "Harvey" when the villain interrogates the patrons at the pub.

Love this film. All the roles are really well written and played. I especially like Elwood's calmness and kindness toe veryone. You might consider doing a reaction to "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"; another really good movie.

I've been looking forward to seeing your reaction to this movie since you announced you were doing it a week ago. Such a great movie and so few have done it. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE came out 4 years earlier by the way in 1946, since you were wondering. And you apprently don't don't remember but you've seen this movie referenced twice already in movies you've already seen. In SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Andy describes Randall Stevens, the person he made in his bank fraud scheme as second cousin to Harvey the rabbit. And in FIELD OF DREAMS this movie was used as a plot device to show how messed up Ray was initially about hearing voices in his cornfield. In the scene his daughter is watching the movie on a TV set and he turns it off telling her to stop watching it, the man in the movie isn't funny he says. the man is sick. And everyone watching that movie back then understood the reference because everyoje back then knew the movie. It is that beloved. But now to comp[lete the trifecta you need to see the other great movie from 20 years ago that references HARVEY. You may not have heard of it but you should have because it is in the same class as those other two, It is Ron Howard's A BEAUTIFUL MIND. Take a look. You'll love it.

@long-timesci-fienthusiast9626

8 ай бұрын

It`s also referenced in the 1988 film (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), by a patron in the Diner. When the Judge say`s he is looking for a Rabbit, the patron fakes introducing him to Harvey.

So happy to see a reaction to this classic!

The play won the Pulitzer Prize five years earlier. Everytime I eat a scrambled egg and onion sandwich, I think of this movie. And if you don't t start seeing the rabbit one hour in, you're too whimsy-impaired for content like this. 😂 🐇 🐰

A pooka is a mythological spirit of British Isles. Mostly not very well known.

Harvey is a Pooka. In the 90s there wasa all-girl duo called Pooka and they had a really nice song "City Slick"

Great movie and I appreciate how your reaction and treatment of this classic!

A classic film and now you will understand the line about creating a person from nothing in The Shawshank Redemption.

and remember all you millennials..... Harvey was made before CGI..... Harvey is a practical effect.

@RexFuturi

8 ай бұрын

I saw this movie decades ago, old person.

@JuandeFucaU

8 ай бұрын

@@RexFuturi decades or centuries?

@karenfryberger4260

8 ай бұрын

Before any more nasty replies - can't you see the joke here? Good one, @Juande!

Great movie

I couldn't be happier! Thanks for watching this film!

a lovely film from a golden age. I wish films like this could be made today but alas, we have all lost our innocence now.

the sister was also in Arsenic and Old Lace, even better

I’ve known about this for 40 years but never seen it.

Another great movie is "Holiday" (1938) with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It is definitely worth the watch.

James Stewart has always been one of my favorite actors, especially his Westerns. As a boy, I loved this movie when I saw it on TV. In my freshman year at university, Steward and Helen Hayes brought the stage play of Harvey to our university. Since I was still ‘new’, I didn’t learn about this until it was too late to get tickets. One of my biggest regrets in life was not seeing Harvey on the stage with James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd. (Later, I was able to see Vincent Price and Roddy McDowall in a play together).

Love this movie. 😊 Thank you for sharing it, M&J! You might enjoy another old classic called "Arsenic & Old Lace." It has the same gentle humor.

One of my all-time favorites! James Stewart is perfection and Josephine Hull as Veta Louise won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Stewart has said that her role was the more difficult one because at different times she had to both believe and not believe in Harvey. The movie is adapted from a Pulitzer Prize winning play.

I thought this was forgotten. My High School play was this in the sixties. Was also on tv remake in 1972. Surprised to find 3 reactions to it. I would rather not watch Stewart, he repels me, but I'll go with y'all for a minute or two.

This was Jimmy Stewart's favorite role.

Harvey made an impression on me when I saw it as a teenager. After watching it, I decided to try to be the nicest person I possibly could. It worked. My mom, who was psychologist, was concerned that I was unnaturally nice. Well, I should say it worked for awhile, until I got to college where my roommate taught me to be cynical. Guess I got the formula 977 injection.

I'm so glad I found this channel quite a while ago. Love you guys, your reactions, your discussions (and sometimes passionate but civil debates!) - getting glimpses of your backgrounds and experiences from Romania and the Philippines, your chemistry, the way you let the movie mostly flow and save longer commentary until afterwards - I could go on, but this is already an awfully long run-on sentence. Seeing this film again after so many years have passed was bittersweet. Thanks for what you do.

Other old black and white movies you might like are A Face in The Crowd, and Gaslight.

"Veta" is in another great movie Arsenic And Old Lace.

It always amuses me when the bar patron in who framed roger rabbit introduces his friend Harvey to the judge... and you just know none of the reviewers understand the joke.

Another great film from this era is _Marty,_ which won the Best Picture.

If you need any, proof that Harvey was real is in the painting. How could the Artist give an accurate portrayal unless he too could see him. Elwood would certainly not pay good money for it unless it was accurate, now would he !! Glad you both enjoyed this classic, always great to see more people discover & enjoy it.

What a WONDERFUL film! I think anyone would love this movie. THANKS for reviewing this movie!

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Stewart and the rest of the cast couldn’t be any better!

Elwood's, invisible friend "Harvey", is a mythical Celtic entity, a shapeshifter, if you will. [for lack of a better word] right now, known as a "Puca".

Sanity is only a matter of perspective one person madness is another person's reality before you call someone insane take a close look at what you believe and consider how many people would think that you are insane.

@jacqueline-ki6bk

8 ай бұрын

I'd rather live in a world with more Elwood P. Dowd!

Awesome job guys!

I knew Marion would believe. 🙏🏼 I saw this probably 30 something years ago when I was a teenager and instantly loved it. I believe in Harvey more now. 😇

@MJoy4Fun

8 ай бұрын

oh yesss. there is many things i cannot explain or even proof ''Physically'' but i do know 100% without doubt.. that there is more than this material world! this movie was but a breeze of how we are affected as people. i bet it was inspired by someone's true events

@antoinettelopes

8 ай бұрын

@@MJoy4Fun for sure. There's a movie that came out in theaters this year called AFTER DEATH. It's about near death experiences. You should check it out. It's more like a documentary style so it probably wouldn't be a reaction type movie. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

Thank you for this. I grew up with this movie and James Stewart. I really do like you two, your reactions are always real and intertaining

Cute reaction.

The women Mary Chase who wrote the play . Won the puliter for this.

I knew a Louis Cureau who was a firefighter.

More James Stewart movies! I miss them.

any Jimmy Stewart movie is worth watching ❤❤❤❤

Interesting movie. I should go search for it. Keep it up 🙂

if you want another show in this vein. try Man of la Mancha or Being There.

Thank you for commenting such a good movie. Christmas is coming : I recommend « The Shop around the Corner », a Christmas movie also starring James Stewart. Greetings from France 🇫🇷

Forbidden planet story is based on Shakespeare's the tempest

When the movin picture is loud enough, then your voices are too loud for my neighbor on the other side of the wall.

Wow, thankyou so much. Great reaction. So happy to see some reactors looking at this film. One of my all time favorite movies. Such a wonderfall story. So glad you both enjoyed it. Lets face it, if you don't like this film you must have a heart of stone. I can't help but think there is some connection between this film and the more recent DONNIE DARKO.

Hmm, a good opportunity to watch "Who framed Roger Rabbit". You'll know why.

You missed the end credits.😊