Story Line
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
“She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!”
Top Cast
Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane
Elaine Harper Brewster
Josephine Hull
Aunt Abby Brewster
Jean Adair
Aunt Martha Brewster
Raymond Massey
Jonathan Brewster
John Alexander
'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
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Rating
7.6/ 10
Release Date
1944-09-01
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
ComedyCrime
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
9/10
•7/1/2019Frenetic roller-coaster ride - Capra style!
The Broadway show this film is based on ran for something like four years, such was the yearning for riotous rompathons in the 40s, and thus here the Capra adaptation is pretty much non stop mania. Led b...
barrymost
10/10
•1/19/2020There are thirteen bodies in the cellar! Oh, piffle.
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster has just gotten married. But his newfound wedded bliss is interrupted by the disturbing discovery that his sweet old spinster aunts have been murdering lonely ol...
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/10
•12/3/2023**An extraordinary comedy that stands out for its unpretentiousness.**
I didn't have high expectations when I decided to watch this film, and I think this increased the impact it ended up having even more: based on a successful play, the film is a...