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Best Archival ReRecording of an Existing Score | 2013 | James
Budget 1,120,175 USD
Cary Grant's birth name, Archie Leach, appears on a tombstone in the cemetery near the Brewster's house. In Grant's earlier picture, His Girl Friday (1940), his character, Walter, responded to a threat by saying 'listen, the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach, just a week before he cut his throat'. As a gag, the 'departed' Mr. Leach was apparently interred in the Brooklyn cemetery by the Brewster's home.
Cary Grant considered his acting in this film to be horribly over the top and often called it his least favorite of all his movies.
On stage, Boris Karloff played the monstrous Jonathan Brewster, Raymond Massey's film character, who, in eerie-looking screen makeup, resembled Karloff, which was a running gag throughout the film. Karloff eagerly wanted to do this film, but he was kept under contract by the Broadway play producers and wasn't allowed to do the picture, to his immense displeasure (almost 2 decades later, he did get a chance; in the TV version, Arsenic & Old Lace (1962), his 'wish' (?) came true).
According to Dear Boris biographer Cynthia Lindsay, Josephine Hull and Jean Adair went to their graves believing that Boris Karloff had been so saintly as to agree to let them go to Hollywood to make this film while he stayed on Broadway doing the play. Nothing could have been further from the truth: Karloff was very angry and disappointed that he was the only play cast member not allowed out of his contract to do the film.
Amy Archer-Gilligan, Americas most prolific female serial killer, has been cited as the inspiration for the story. She was charged with the poisoning deaths of her two husbands and was allegedly responsible for the deaths of 66 other elderly "inmates" of her nursing home. Her weapon of choice? Arsenic.
"Mortimer Brewster: Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops."
"[last lines] Mortimer Brewster: No, no. I'm not a Brewster. I'm the son of a sea-cook! Ha! Ha! Chaaaaarrrge! [he runs off across the cemetary] Cab Driver: And I'm not a cab driver, I'm a coffee pot!"
