Harry and the Butler (1961) User Reviews

A poetic masterpiece.

[Curt Jensen · 21 January 2001]

When Harry (Oswald Helmuth), a sweeet but less than affluent man just wins the lottery he doesn't spend the money on getting away from the junkyard where he lives.. nooh, he decide to hire a genuine butler. The butler (Ebbe Rode) hates the place at first and have great difficulties but eventually recognisces Harry's wonderful humanity. A Great danish film, and one everyone ought to see. This is what humanity's about. I particularly love the scene where Harry's watching TV (though a TV-shop window, he can't afford a TV), and the butler is holding the umbrella over his head. A great movie by any standards!

9/10

Sweet! A favourite of mine - watch it!

[anmemadsen · 10/10 · 30 January 2021]

I absolutely love this movie, and I shall continue to do so always. The clash of the sweet Harry and his colourful friends and the professional, proud overclass butler Fabricius brings out the best in both sides and is very enjoyable to watch.

If you're thinking about watching it, just DO IT! It's wonderful.

Kind of a Danish "Ruggles of Red Gap," and Charming

[lchadbou-326-26592 · 6/10 · 16 September 2021]

Most American based readers are likely familiar with the classic 1935 Hollywood version of the story, Ruggles of Red Gap, spoofing a culture clash and the social pretensions when a representative of the British class system is brought out as a manservant to a wild and lowbrow Western town in the more open and democratic USA Here we have a clash between a representative of the Scandinavian servant elite, with not so many opportunities anymore in a more modern world to serve aristocrats with civilized tastes and fine manners, taking a job with a grocer's assistant, who lives in an auto junkyard, to maintain his pride in his profession.(The assistant has come into an unexpected inheritance and that's what he wants to spend his money on) At first shocked by the low rent situation he has gotten into, the new butler comes to enjoy serving not only the assistant but his con artist cronies a "bishop" and another character named Igor ,and to find a welcome place for himself in the humble milieu.

This unpretentious little comedy wins a viewer over with its sweet charm.