Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Directed by Frank Capra
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!
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Strangely, despite the initial introduction of distasteful ruffians and seemingly helpless innocents, humor crops up at odd moments, not just in brief exchanges but also in unexpected acts, as if channeling “Arsenic and Old Lace” – but without the overt slapstick.
Not since Arsenic and Old Lace has there been a movie that brushes so flippantly over the worst kind of human behavior and disposes of its characters with such antic indifference.