: Mortimer Brewster (played by Cary Grant ), a drama critic and famous bachelor, finally gets married.
: Jonathan and Mortimer engage in a battle of wits to see who can get rid of their respective bodies first.
: Mortimer frantically tries to get Teddy committed to a sanitarium to save him from being arrested for the aunts' crimes.
: Before leaving for his honeymoon, he stops in Brooklyn to tell his two sweet, elderly aunts, Abby and Martha, the news.
The 1944 film Arsenic and Old Lace , directed by Frank Capra , is a quintessential screwball dark comedy that blends romance, madness, and murder in a single chaotic Halloween night. The Story Setup
: His long-lost brother, Jonathan (a serial killer on the run), arrives with a drunken surgeon, Dr. Einstein, and a corpse of his own. The Comedic Conflict
: After a night of kidnapping attempts and bumbling police interference, the truth about Mortimer’s lineage provides a hilarious, relieving twist.
: While looking for a manuscript, Mortimer finds a dead body hidden in the window seat. The Family Secrets
