Delightful black comedy (…). On the surface, it looks quite atypical compared to Hitchcock‘s more famous works, but this is a vintage story from a great director with a wry sense of humor, and it is also one of the most liveliest works in his exceptional career. Although somebody is dead, there is no suspense or danger or blond lady in the movie, and all we have to do is leisurely enjoy a pleasant walk with its funny characters as they try to deal with bizarre trouble on one fine autumn day in their ordinary peaceful rural town in Vermont. — Seongyong Cho

— Coming home from Madagascar once we had a fireman on board who hit his head on a brick wall and died two days later.
— Where did he find a brick wall on board a ship?
— That’s what we always wondered.