who is responsible for the voices around the gun shots?
i have seen the film before, but have forgotten if this is ever explained or not.
I believe that would be the woman (can't remember her name) who hit Harry with her shoe and believed that she killed him.
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I would suppose it is Miss Graveley, who later admits to having hit Harry with the heel of her shoe, after he "attacked" her.
I don't actually remember hearing the voices in the film, although I read the book recently, and they are in that.
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hitchcock stays on the boy (the future beaver)and i believe you hear some voices and then the shots. then the boy discovers the body, but the source of the voice is never shown. i don't actually have a copy of the film to be certain though.
shareActually, shots first...then voices...then a "thud"....then finding the body. Makes you wonder what Miss Gravely thought was going on, when she clobbered him with the shoe.
shareThere are three gunshots as the camera stays on the boy falling to the ground. Then, a distant MAN'S voice (not ANY of the characters in the film): "I know how to handle your kind."
This red herring is never explained and is a complete cheat.
interesting.
this is probably why it seemed odd enough for me to post about it back then.
i guess it's sorta like the disappearing Madeleine in Vertigo (when she goes into the hotel and disappears).
i read somewhere that Hitchcock did that intentionally to serve as "water cooler talk" the next morning at work (referring to the Vertigo statement).
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Harry was a cad. It was his voice.
shareOk, so this caught me at first also. At first I though that the voice says "I know how to deal with your kind" then the three gun shots ring out, but it is in fact the other way around. So....
The three gun shots are the hunter's and the voice belongs to Harry as he attempts to rape Mrs. Gravely mistaking her for his wife.
I just watched this movie and you are correct.
The boy Arnie hears:
Three shots.
A man's voice saying "I know how to deal with your kind."
Slight rustling sounds (like leaves or bushes).
A thud.
After everyone has told their pieces of the story you realize the three shots were from Capt Miles and the voice was Harry's, attacking Miss Gravely in the bushes.
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The three shots hit a beer can, a "No Shooting" sign, and a rabbit.
No one killed Harry - he died of natural causes.
Now I always thought the spinster threw in the bit about Harry mistaking her for his wife and trying to rape her as BS on her part. Flattering herself - as if any man could actually mistake her for the young, beautiful, sexy Shirley McLaine character.For that scenario to be believable one of Hitchs blonds would have had to play her part.Looks and age aside,Harry did marry McLaines character.
Quite a stretch to think a man could be so easily mistaken - I'd know my ex in the pitch dark !
The off-screen voice that you hear is Harry, of course. He is having his dispute with Miss Gravely and it is just before she conks him on the forehead wtih her shoe. You can hear that it is a man's voice and what he says fits in with what Miss Gravely says of the confrontation.
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