| This classic farcical black comedy revolves around newlywed Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy homicidal family comprised of two spinster aunts who have taken to poisoning lonely old men and burying them in their cellar, a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal, a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery to look like Boris Karloff in order to conceal his identity. The 1944 film adaptation of ARSENIC & OLD LACE was directed by Frank Capra and starred Cary Grant as the befuddled bridegroom. |
