Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvellous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre.

On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise!

A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a frenzied criminal who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff (Raymond Massey), and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating this diabolical delight of a film that only gets funnier as the body count rises.

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