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Features: DVD, Dual Layer, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Digital Audio, Production Notes
Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring’s 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who pla y lonely geezers with poisoned libations, one sociopath brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers bother (John Alexander ) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane) – and only one night to make it turn out all right. In this circus’ center ring is Grant, twisting his face into a clown’s gallery of flabbergasted reactions and transforming his natural athletic grace into a rubber-legged comic ballet. You’ll die laughing.
Editor's Note
Beware nice old ladies offering elderberry wine! A mild-mannered drama critic discovers the shocking truth about his two elderly aunts: The seemingly harmless old ladies have the most disagreeable habit of poisoning their gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. One of the all-time great black comedies.
Plot Summary
A couple leaving on their honeymoon must put aside their plans when the groom finds that his spinster aunts are killing people in their pleasant little house and burying the bodies in the cellar. To their credit, the aunts believe they are just being kind and they hold touching funeral services for all of their victims. The plot is complicated by a somewhat dotty elderly relative who is convinced that he is Teddy Roosevelt.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo, Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Subtitles: English, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner Music |
| Release Date: 8/22/2006 |
| Running Time: 118 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1944 | | Catalog ID: 65025 | | UPC: 00012569502529 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Capra's mischievous tale of murder by old maid remains relentlessly, impeccably funny..." 03/01/2002 p.62Uncut
"[S]till a diamond." 08/01/2001 p.141 |
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