This film is based on
a play with the same title by Joseph Kesselring. Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and he is well known for
his rants against marriage. In the
opening scene, he is getting married at city hall? Mortimer and his new bride go to his home to tell
Mortimer’s two maiden aunts about this important event. Mortimer is trying to tell the aunts about the wedding. Instead, he learns that the hobby of
his aunts is to kill lonely old men and bury them in the cellar? How can this be true? Soon after Mortimer’s discovery, his
brother and a doctor show up at their home. His brother looks like Frankenstein and the doctor may not
be sane?
There is a LOT
of frantic action in this film and there is also comedy. Mortimer can’t handle the fact that he just got married
and also the secrets he learns about his aunts. His bride lives next door and he asks her to go to her house
instead of going on their honeymoon?
Mortimer is very surprised that his brother and the doctor have come to
the house? His older brother was
not very kind to Mortimer when they were growing up!! 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
118 min,
Comedy directed by Frank Capra with Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey,
Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Cleason, Josephine Hull,
Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry Owen, John
Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser.
Note: Imdb 8 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes, 88%
critic 92% audience, Amazon 4.7* out of 5* with 1313 reviews, TCM Leonard
Maltin 3.5* out of 4* average user rating 4.5* out of 5*.
Special
Note: This movie was filmed in
1941 because Cary Grant was available at this time.
It was released in 1944 and the original stage version had finished its
run on Broadway. Filmed at Warner
Brothers Burbank Studios, California.
Cary Grant considered this to be his least favorite of all his
movies. He thought his acting was
horribly over the top? Twenty
years before filming, Jean Adair helped nurse a very sick vaudeville performer
named Archie Leach. Adair and Leach
became good friends and Leach changed his name to Cary Grant. Originally, the role of Mortimer was for Bob Hope but he
couldn’t be released from his Paramount Pictures contract.
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