: 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
: Mortimer Brewster (played by Cary Grant ), a drama critic and famous bachelor, finally gets married. Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)
: Mortimer frantically tries to get Teddy committed to a sanitarium to save him from being arrested for the aunts' crimes. : His long-lost brother, Jonathan (a serial killer
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 : Mortimer frantically tries to get Teddy committed
: His aunts casually admit they've been poisoning lonely old men with elderberry wine laced with arsenic.
: Mortimer's brother, Teddy, believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and "buries" the bodies in the basement, thinking he is digging the Panama Canal.