The last thing the VERY last thing you might expect to find in the window seat at the home of your dear, sweet old aunties is a dead body. And the wide-eyed, open-mouthed, hair-standing-on-end reaction of Cary Grant s Mortimer Brewster is one of the most beloved and funniest moments of the 1944 film "Arsenic and Old Lace."
The last thing the VERY last thing you might expect to find in the window seat at the home of your dear, sweet old aunties is a dead body. And the wide-eyed, open-mouthed, hair-standing-on-end reaction of Cary Grant s Mortimer Brewster is one of the most beloved and funniest moments of the 1944 film "Arsenic and Old Lace."