Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Harold And Maude (1971)

Harold and Maude - (Original Trailer)

Bud Cort (then 19) and Ruth Gordon (then 75) make an unusual couple in Hal Ashby's cult comedy Harold and Maude (1971).

Harold And Maude (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Snowfall On 42nd Street

For the first time Harold (Bud Cort) seeks out Maude (Ruth Gordon) who’s invited him to visit, and she’s posing for sculptor Glaucus (Cyril Cusack), then demonstrates her scent simulator, Hal Ashby directing from Colin Higgins’ original screenplay, in Harold And Maude, 1971.

Harold And Maude (1971) -- (Movie Clip) This Is My Car

Shooting this time at the Holy Cross cemetery in Colma, near San Francisco, Harold (Bud Cort) meets Maude (Ruth Gordon) for the third time, as spectators at a funeral, Eric Christmas the priest again, Cat Stevens with his composition “Tea For The Tillerman,” in Hal Ashby’s Harold And Maude, 1971.

Harold And Maude (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Like Some Licorice?

Director Hal Ashby shooting on location this time in Palo Alto, Harold (Bud Cort) for the second time encounters Maude (Ruth Gordon) attending a funeral to which neither of them has any connection, Eric Christmas the baffled priest, in Harold And Maude, 1971.

Harold And Maude (1971) -- (Movie Clip) In Sight Of My Adversaries

Having just told his psychiatrist about his funeral-going habit, we join Harold (Bud Cort) getting some new wheels, and attending his first, where he sees Maude (Ruth Gordon) for the first time, and his mother expresses further disapproval, early in Hal Ashby’s Harold And Maude, 1971.

Harold And Maude (1971) -- (Movie Clip) A Definite Pattern Emerging

After director Hal Ashby and writer Colin Higgins’ elaborate fake suicide staged by Harold (Bud Cort) for his mom (Vivian Pickles) in the opening, she explains for dinner guests, and he visits the shrink (G. Wood), in Harold And Maude, 1971, also starring Ruth Gordon.