Lucy Hamilton
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I saw this movie years ago, it is a great comedy with Cary Grant, Peter Lorre and other great actors.....it is the story of a marriage hating writer who gets secretly married and is leaving on his honeymoon. On the way to the airport, he stops by to visit his two elderly aunts....and finds out they have been murdering lonely old men with Elderberry Wine laced with Arsenic...his crazy uncle, who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt digging the Panama canal, buries the old men who have died from "Malaria." Trying to deal with this, his older brother comes home.....a serial killer/criminal with his partner in crime played Peter Lorre......it is an actual funny movie.....
The serial killing brother....Michael Shannon could play him today...I don't really know who else could play the other roles...Carey Grant would be hard to duplicate today....maybe a younger George Clooney could have played this role......it has manic aspects to it that Clooney could do, but is a little too old to play now...
Wow...it was made in 1944...
No I do NOT agree with re making films that are already brilliant, it is very offensive, why would for example anyone want to re make "Arsenic and Old Lace" not only was Cary Grant and Peter Lorre perfect, but also Raymond Massey as Cary Grant's characters crazed brother Jonathan and also brilliant performances from Jean Adair and Josephine Hull as Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha as the homicidal old ladies and the perfection of the direction by Frank Capra one of the absolutely genius and influential directors of the 1930s and 1940s.
Another of my favourite Frank Capra films he made in 1936 is "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Wikipedia
Also another of my favourite Frank Capra films he made in 1939 is "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Wikipedia
They do not make films like this anymore, they can NEVER make films like this EVER again, the 1930s and 1940s were a completely unique and wonderful and golden period for the art of film making.
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