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Context. This line is spoken by Mortimer Brewster (played by Cary Grant) in the film Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra (1944).. Every family has skeletons in the closet, but the off-kilter Brewster clan has them buried in the basement… along with a corpse or two in the window seat.
17 quotes. Aunt Martha: For a gallon of elderberry wine, I take one teaspoon full of arsenic, then add half a teaspoon full of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide. Mortimer Brewster: Hmm. Should have quite a kick. Elaine Harper: But Mortimer, you're going to love me for my mind, too.
Director: Frank Capra. Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton. Genre: Comedy, Crime. Rating: NR (Not Rated) Runtime: 118 minutes. Frank Capra made this film in 1941 before he went off to make films for America's war effort, but it wasn't released until 1944. Adapted from the hit play by Joseph ...
Something borrowed, something blue - old, new! Rice and old shoes, carry you over the threshold, Niagara Falls — all the silly tripe I've made fun of for years. Is this what I've come to? I can't go through with it. I won't marry you and that's that! Elaine: [adoring] Yes, Mortimer. Mortimer: What do you mean, "Yes, Mortimer"? Aren't you ...
Synopsis. 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!
- 118 min
View Quote [ Meeting with Dr. Gilchrist in the cemetery] Pull up a tombstone! View Quote Certainly there are thirteen bodies in the cellar and there are hundreds more in the attic! View Quote [ watching the fighting, lighting up a cigarette] Go on — fight, fight. I don't care. [ watching the police trying to bring down Jonathan with a shoe ...
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