Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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!
- poison
- cemetery
- insanity
- cellar
- marriage
- halloween
- murder
- serial killer
- writer
- corpse
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Peter Lorre — Dr. Einstein
- Jack Carson — Officer Patrick O'Hara
- Edward Everett Horton — Mr. Witherspoon
- James Gleason — Lt. Rooney
- Grant Mitchell — Reverend Harper
- Edward McNamara — Sergeant Brophy
- Garry Owen — Taxi Cab Driver
- John Ridgely — Officer Saunders
- Vaughan Glaser — Judge Cullman
- Directed
- Frank Capra
- Written
- Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,053 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
