Harvey 1950

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: If you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of Harvey is definitely for you. Read more

TIME Magazine: Unhappily, what the film also borrows from the play, and somehow makes more conspicuous, is a tendency to drag its feet for long stretches, especially during the virtually actionless last third of the story. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Charming, lightweight stuff (from a play by Mary Chase), so long as you can take Stewart's ingenuousness, but it does wear thin. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Harvey, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play, loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation. Read more