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The weather outside has been absolutely frightful, so for this week on «Film Friday» I have decided to bring you one of the most delightful films I have ever seen. This is one of those enchanting little stories that will most definitely keep you warm on a cold winter night. Directed by Henry Koster, Harvey (1950) tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart), a middle-aged, amiable drunk who claims to have an invisible best friend named Harvey — whom he describes as a 6'3.5" tall pookah resembling an anthropomorphic white rabbit. His friends and family wonder whether his obsession with Harvey is a product of his (self-admitted) drinking problem, or rather a sign of mental illness. When Elwood starts to introduce Harvey to guests at a society party hosted by his excitable older sister, Veta Louise Simmons (Josephine Hull), the woman has seen just about as much of his eccentric behaviour as she can tolerate. To spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae (Victoria Horne), and their fa...

Original release poster Directed by Frank Capra, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) tells the story of Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant), a Broadway critic and "symbol of bachelorhood," author of several anti-marriage books , who ironically weds Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane) on Halloween . On their way to their honeymoon, they stop in Brooklyn, where they grew up next door to each other. While Elaine drops in on her father, Reverend Harper (Grant Mitchell), Mortimer visits the eccentric but lovable relatives who raised him and who still live in his old family home: his spinster aunts Abby (Josephine Hull) and Martha (Jean Adair), and his derranged brother Teddy (John Alexander), who believes h imself to be Theodore Roosevelt. As he s earch es for the notes for his most re cent book , Mortimer discovers a dead body hidden in the window seat and is s hocked to find that his aunts were responsible for the murder. Abby and Martha calmly explain that they have been k...