"They're two of the dearest, sweetest, kindest, old ladies that ever walked the earth. They're out of this world. They're like, they're like pressed rose leaves."
Mortimer Bruster (Cary Grant) is an author known for his diatribes against marriage, who brings his bride (Priscilla Lane) to see his favourite maiden aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair). Whilst trying to tell them the good news, he finds out they have been taking in lonely old men as an act of kindness. Unfortunately for the men, their charity includes putting them out of their misery and burying them in the cellar. Then to compound things nephew Jonathon (Raymond Massey), turns up, on the run from the law for murder. Cunningly he's had plastic surgery, unfortunately he now looks like Boris Karloff, due to his alcoholic sidekick Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre). Bruster tries to sort things, whilst keeping his bride none the wiser that insanity obviously gallops in this family.
A classic black comedy with one of Grants finest performances as the wisecracking journalist out of his depth with the insanity around him.
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