Back to the classics for a day! This movie, which marks the quarter-of-the-challenge complete (yay!) has long been recommended to me as a classic comedy. It stars Cary Grant (not his first appearance on the count-up) as a newly-married man who visits his aunts' house, only to find out that they've mercy-killed a dozen men. Then his estranged brother shows up, preparing for a facial transplant and swearing revenge (for nothing specifically) on his brother.
The hijinks ensue (don't they always), but I found the film a bit overlong and certainly quite absurd. The aunts (played by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) were easily the best part of the film, especially in their constant affirmation that the dozen corpses in the basement were really no big deal, at all. Provided that Priscilla Lane has some talent (I didn't know who she was before the movie), it was wasted as Grant's new wife, though Peter Lorre's bit part provided some much needed relief. The constant appearing and re-appearing of the policemen grew stale quickly, especially the one who wanted to provide Grant's character with an explanation of the play he was writing. Look also for Edward Everett Horton, whose voice was used for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairy Tales". (I loved them as a kid.)
Score: 7/10
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