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  • What in the woRLD WAS THIS FILM!! Absolutely ridiculous, whacky, nonstop insanity of different crazy things happening left and right! So much was going on; it wasn't hard to keep up but it was all back to back wackiness and it was so much fun and super entertaining. What a ride. Enjoy!
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  • @vapoet
    @vapoet Год назад +51

    I think many young folks have no clue that movies from the 30s and 40s can be so delightfully twisted. They often think that that morbid humor started in the 1980s. While this may be the darkest comedy of them all, the amount of total bonkers of the era is completely missed. I'm not even going to list all the great films of the era. They need to be seen to be believed,

    • @kcirtapelyk6060
      @kcirtapelyk6060 Год назад

      The average moviegoer today has the attention span of an ADD crackhead. They generally don’t tend to appreciate good acting, good dialogue, and good storytelling and are only entertained by explosions, toilet humor, graphic violence, and tits.

    • @c.b.barlow
      @c.b.barlow Год назад +3

      When I worked as a caregiver I got introduced to TCM (turner classic movies). LoL

    • @simonorourke4465
      @simonorourke4465 Год назад +4

      This is an awsome film, another great example of a very funny much older film with a twisted sense of humour is Kind Hearts and Coranets by ealing studios.

  • @Rmlohner
    @Rmlohner Год назад +78

    In the original play, Jonathan was actually played by Boris Karloff himself. Unfortunately, the film was put into production so hard on its heels that Karloff still had commitments to it and couldn't do the role there. So they compromised by getting Raymond Massey, who had some resemblance to him (increased further with makeup), even though his acting persona was very different. He was best known for playing Abraham Lincoln in several plays and films.

    • @michaelceraso1977
      @michaelceraso1977 Год назад +6

      omg you are the 1st to view this madcap comedy, Cary Grant thought he was way over the top playing his character but i think it just makes it that much funnier. That scene when the cops come in and Massey is ready to confess and then all hell breaks loose is still a riot to me. I saw this on the late show one summer during my time off from high school when we had a channel that exclusively played these classics after midnight ,and I laughed so much until 230 am

    • @cathleencooks748
      @cathleencooks748 Год назад +4

      @@michaelceraso1977 2nd one to react to this movie. Mia Tiffany who only reacts to older movies including some silent ones like Wings reviewed this movie over a year ago. If you like older movies check out her channel. Before she watches the movie she gives you some background on it. Excellent reactor with content very few have if any have done. One being the original The Magnificent Seven which no one else has reacted to.

    • @michaelceraso1977
      @michaelceraso1977 Год назад

      @@cathleencooks748 oh ive seen lots of her reviews of the old time classics, she has started to do the jeremy brett old PBS SHerlock holmes shows, but I just happened to see she posted her reaction to Butch & sundance so I will check that out today

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets Год назад +1

      @@cathleencooks748 Mia is great.

  • @Palmieres
    @Palmieres Год назад +6

    Cary Grant's face as the aunties retell what they're doing is just gold. A classically handsome man throwing the best WTF face in existence is just perfectly distilled comedy.

  • @cathleencooks748
    @cathleencooks748 Год назад +56

    A billion thanks for reacting to this classical movie. It holds a special place in my heart as I share a birthday with Teddy Roosevelt. A great follow up movie to this one would be His Girl Friday another Cary Grant screwball comedy with Rosalind Russell. It has a 99% rating on Rotten Tomato so please consider watching it.

    • @vercoda9997
      @vercoda9997 Год назад

      I hope you don't tackle stairs like That particular 'Teddy' did.

  • @Rmlohner
    @Rmlohner Год назад +42

    If that line "I'm the son of a sea cook" feels a little awkward, it's because the original play ends with Mortimer gleefully shouting "I'm a bastard!" But of course that would never fly in the era of the Hays Code.

    • @timbuktu8069
      @timbuktu8069 Год назад +6

      "Son of a sea cook" is a sailing ship euphemism for bastard.

    • @fauxrowsdower7610
      @fauxrowsdower7610 Год назад +4

      good ol Hays Code ruining things wherever it goes!

    • @najhoant
      @najhoant Год назад +3

      Damn, I would have loved to hear Cary Grant read the original line

    • @mkozlinski
      @mkozlinski Год назад

      The fact that Mortimer was illegitimate child was already barely passable for the censors. Medical law of Holywood at the time: illegitimate children die at birth. Preferably with their mothers.

  • @Jrmrmrc
    @Jrmrmrc Год назад +35

    Mortimer's plan was to blame all the murders on Teddy. In theory, if Teddy was already committed to an asylum, a soft insanity plea would be a natural conclusion. His aunts commiting themselves as well was a happy accident.

    • @maximax7056
      @maximax7056 Год назад +3

      I always saw it he wanted Teddy out of the house so he couldn't dig any more graves for the ladies.

    • @Orion_TheyThem
      @Orion_TheyThem Год назад

      @@maximax7056 not at all. Dunno how you got to that conclusion. They'd still keep killing even if he didn't dig the graves.

  • @galandirofrivendell4740
    @galandirofrivendell4740 Год назад +7

    When this play is produced on the stage, some theater companies have the 12 "corpses" come up from the cellar to take their bows during the curtain call instead of the cast.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 Год назад +19

    This is a hilarious dark comedy, and Cary Grant tries to not lose his sanity throughout! Lol!!

  • @randallshuck2976
    @randallshuck2976 Год назад +35

    For another classic light comedy try "Harvey" starring Jimmy Stewart. It is also a slightly wacky farce with some excellent actors and actresses outdoing themselves.

    • @lisakovanen1975
      @lisakovanen1975 Год назад +1

      Yes!

    • @lindanicholson950
      @lindanicholson950 Год назад +2

      Josephine Hull who plays one of the aunts in this movie plays Jimmy Stewart's sister in Harvey. It is one of my favorite movies.

    • @joem1480
      @joem1480 11 месяцев назад +1

      Harvey is referenced in "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit"

  • @gggooding
    @gggooding Год назад +14

    *BEST* serial killer movie - for ever and ever and ever.

  • @vercoda9997
    @vercoda9997 Год назад +34

    The very definition of a screwball comedy. Packed with a good cast of established leads, and character actors. Keep up the good work of old classics!

    • @vercoda9997
      @vercoda9997 Год назад

      Missing words at the end: "also watching". Oh, the travails of battling slight dyslexia...

  • @kcirtapelyk6060
    @kcirtapelyk6060 Год назад +12

    I really appreciate you reacting to these classics. Far too many people for some reason have some kind of weird prejudice against old black and white films.

  • @jeffmartin1026
    @jeffmartin1026 Год назад +16

    So glad you have gotten around to seeing this absolute classic of a film. Next up should be Harvey, a much lighter comedy. I love that no one reacts to the name Dr. Einstein in the movie. Jack Carter is such a good character actor - he's splendid in pretty much anything he is in.

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr Год назад +20

    As a second-generation Brooklynite, I am, of course, obligated to love this movie and the play it comes from. No hardship for me!
    The author of this piece of madness, Joseph Kesselring, started out writing a serious thriller, but as you can see, it ended up just a little differently.
    Notice that the movie is filled with bodies but, except for a silhouette, we never see one.
    This was a rush job, as many of the people involved in the production were more anxious to start service of one kind or another in the war. Frank Capra and Cary Grant both ended up disappointed in the final product.
    Josephine Hull (Aunt Abby), Jean Adair (Aunt Martha) and Johh Alexander (Teddy) were all from the original stage production on Broadway, accompanied by the actual Boris Karloff as Jonathan. Karloff was obligated to remain in NYC for the play and the movie was made during its run, hence the reason he is replaced by the remarkable Raymond Massey.
    You owe it to yourself to watch Josephine Hull in a very different role in "Harvey", with James Stewart.
    Aside from these, the cast is filled with greats: Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein, Priscilla Lane as Elaine (one of a family of acting sisters), Jack Carson as O'Hara (you don't know him yet, I'm sure, but you will love him in everything he's in). Edward Everett Horton as Dr. Witherspoon, who acted with Grant in "Holiday", and who you may know from many animation voice-overs; and James Gleason as the Lieutenant who's "been without sleep for forty-eight hours", who shines in his small space on screen, and who also acted with Grant in "The Bishop's Wife". This movie was my introduction to both Gleason and Carson.

  • @johncampbell756
    @johncampbell756 Год назад +8

    The Aunts killed 11. The first was a heart attack.

  • @jcastromex
    @jcastromex Год назад +13

    CHARRRRRRRRRRGE! 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so glad that you were able to watch this hilarious comedy! It's one of my favorite Cary Grant films. 📽❤

  • @NathanWert
    @NathanWert Год назад +6

    I've played three different characters on stage from this play. Teddy, Officer Brophy and Mr. Gibbs. Lots of fun.

  • @Jack80300
    @Jack80300 Год назад +6

    Comedies from this era is the best, i can't remember the last comedy released that was funny

  • @c.b.barlow
    @c.b.barlow Год назад +4

    I love Peter Lorre. Drama, comedy, and of course, horror. LoL

  • @Alexeya13
    @Alexeya13 Год назад +20

    I love Cary Grant. He's one of my favorite actors. I Love all his movies but 'Arsenic & Old Lace' is one of my favorites.
    Other Cary Grant movies I love. 'The Philadelphia Story' with Jimmy Stewart & Katharine Hepburn "His Girl Friday" with Rosalind Russell. "To Catch a Thief" Hitchcock movie with Grace Kelly.

    • @beansfriend7033
      @beansfriend7033 Год назад +1

      I think I accidentally downvoted you by mistake. I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, I just had fat thumbs there for a moment.

    • @beatmet2355
      @beatmet2355 Год назад +3

      Ironically, Grant hated his performance because it was too over the top, IHO.
      I couldn’t disagree more. He never went to that extreme in anything else, that I know of and that’s why I love it.

    • @crunchbar777
      @crunchbar777 Год назад +1

      Another great Cary Grant movie is Father Goose

    • @dawns.427
      @dawns.427 Год назад +1

      I love him too! Have you seen Bringing Up Baby with Katherine Hepburn? It's another hilarious, madcap comedy.

    • @beatmet2355
      @beatmet2355 Год назад

      @@dawns.427 🎵I can’t give you anything but love, baby🎶

  • @tokyorose530
    @tokyorose530 Год назад +5

    The happy dance I just did when I got the notification lol. This is my favorite movie. I have watched this movie so many times I know line for line lol.

  • @leighwhite6700
    @leighwhite6700 Год назад +8

    Oh Sam Thank you for this reaction. This film is one of my favorites of all time. The hysterical story, editing and lighting are perfection. Of course Cary Grant 💖 No actor like him. You laughed a lot 😆 The aunties. 🤣

  • @AB2B
    @AB2B Год назад +2

    We quote this movie in our home. When we go down to the basement, we're going down to Panama. When we head to the attic, we call "Charge!" We even sing the little "there is a Happy Dale" ditty when we mess something up in a weird way. It's such a classic!

  • @SarahMaeBea
    @SarahMaeBea Год назад +13

    I was in this play in high school!! I was one of the aunties. It was so much fun. Love this movie.

    • @audraross3012
      @audraross3012 Год назад +1

      Me too! I was Aunt Martha. Such a fun show!

    • @galandirofrivendell4740
      @galandirofrivendell4740 Год назад +1

      @@audraross3012 I've been in two stage productions of this play, the first as Officer O'Hara and the second as Dr. Einstein, whom I would dearly love to play again. It's such a fun role.

    • @ninjabluefyre3815
      @ninjabluefyre3815 Год назад

      I want to play Mortimer on stage as much as anything in my life.

    • @patticrichton1135
      @patticrichton1135 Год назад +1

      My high school also did "Arsenic and Old Lace" in 1963. I wasn't in it, but I went each night that it ran. My classmates did a PHENOMENAL job on it. It turnes out that this is a popular play for high schools to do.

    • @terryevitts6118
      @terryevitts6118 9 месяцев назад

      I played Dr. Einstein in high school. I loved it! The director pointed to the kid who played Mortimer and to me and said, "I feel sorry for you because everyone in the audience has seen Cary Grant play your part and everyone it the audience has seen Peter Lorre play your part." Tough acts to follow.

  • @Rmlohner
    @Rmlohner Год назад +31

    It really is bizarre that Frank Capra did a black comedy like this, when his typical work was sentimental verging on corny movies like It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I have no idea what put this one on his radar, but I'm so glad it got there, because he nails it.

    • @kcirtapelyk6060
      @kcirtapelyk6060 Год назад +4

      A lot of Capras early films were more dark and risqué for their time. For example, The Bitter Tea of General Yen in 1933 starring Barbara Stanwyck, is about an American missionary abducted by a Chinese warlord and fall in love.

  • @DanJackson1977
    @DanJackson1977 Год назад +4

    The whole Boris Karloff angle was apparently much funnier when when Boris would do it live on stage.. his intro would get a HUGE laugh.. the man was one of the biggest stars in the world at the time.

  • @JackNapierDe
    @JackNapierDe Год назад +2

    OGB: 'Arsenic and old lace' is wacky and insane
    'Bringing up baby' and 'Hellzapoppin': Hold my beer

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 10 месяцев назад +2

    4:49 "He really... dresses the _part."_
    He looks the part, _too,_ doesn't he? John Alexander was _incredibly_ well casted.

  • @floppsymoppsy5969
    @floppsymoppsy5969 Год назад +2

    I loved this movie as a kid. One of theater teachers wanted to do this play and I expressed how much I loved the movie and he looked at my with such a strange face. I was such an odd teenager I suppose.

  • @sallieronan5125
    @sallieronan5125 Год назад +1

    When the original Broadway production was in rehearsals, it was supposed to be a dramatic thriller. As rehearsals were progressing it became clear it was so ridiculously funny it was turned into a comedy.

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 Год назад +1

    Dr. Einstein? Another great choice! I didn't know the President had specific signing clothes. Love it when James Gleason (Police Captain) is in a comedy movie.

  • @Aeroldoth3
    @Aeroldoth3 Год назад +1

    I did this play in high school, and got to change some of the lines. One I changed was "he looks like boris karloff" to the name of our principal. The audience/parents loved it. Fun times.

  • @lookmanohands1966
    @lookmanohands1966 Год назад +4

    This is and ever shall be one of the best dark comedies ever.

  • @geraldmcboingboing7401
    @geraldmcboingboing7401 Год назад +22

    Thank you for reacting to his great film, Sam!!! If you can get a chance, check out Holiday (1938), The Bishop's Wife (1947), His Girl Friday (1940), and Mr. Blandings Builds Hs Dream House (1948). They's all great too.

    • @ElliotNesterman
      @ElliotNesterman Год назад +2

      _His Girl Friday_ is one of the finest of the screwball comedies. It also has among the fastest dialogue of all American movies. Howard Hawks, the director wanted it to have the fastest dialogue of any film made up until that time, and specifically faster than _The Front Page_ (1931), the first adaptation of the 1928 Broadway comedy of the same title. ( _His Girl Friday_ was the second adaptation of the _The Front Page._ )

    • @arturocostantino623
      @arturocostantino623 Год назад +2

      But Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story are even better.

    • @enchantedwooddesigns3462
      @enchantedwooddesigns3462 Год назад +1

      Monkey Business and The Bobby Soxer are good too.

    • @praapje
      @praapje Год назад +1

      And The Awful Truth and Topper (both 1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), My Favorite Wife (1940), The Talk of the Town (1942) and I Was A Male War Bride (1949). All comedy gems with Grant.

  • @rebexca3
    @rebexca3 Год назад +9

    I hadn't heard a lot about the movie before I watched it a year ago, but it's so insane in the best way 😆
    Definitely the wildest I've seen Cary Grant.
    I really want to watch a stage version of it at some point.

    • @jentoby73
      @jentoby73 Год назад +1

      I saw a university theater production of it once. Such a fun time! 😀

  • @patticrichton1135
    @patticrichton1135 Год назад +2

    I NEVER tire of watching ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. I have seen it SO MANY TIMES in my life (I am 75 now) and it STILL makes me laugh! I LOVE Carey Grant and THIS is my favorite role of all the Carey Grant movies I have watched. His reactions and facial expressions are absolutely HILARIOUS!! EVERY one in this film give a GREAT performance, but Grant is the BEST!!

  • @allwrappedup2476
    @allwrappedup2476 Год назад +3

    One of my favorites!!! We did this as a play in high school…in black and white! The whole stage and characters were in shades of gray. It was awesome

  • @jlbelshan
    @jlbelshan Год назад +1

    I was impressed by Teddy's thunderous voice. Mortimer's more human (i.e. much weaker) yell at the end gave a comparison point.

  • @virginiacox-westwood551
    @virginiacox-westwood551 Год назад +1

    Born and bred in Brooklyn, I have always LOVED this movie, especially where it says, "meanwhile, across the bridge in mainland USA" Of course that's the Brooklyn Bridge. Great fun film. Glad you enjoyed it so much.

  • @donbergeson6771
    @donbergeson6771 Год назад +4

    The 2 ladies had never been in a film before, they were stage actresses. But they were so good in the roles of the Brewster sisters that the producers never considered anyone else in those roles.

  • @Pntngbrn
    @Pntngbrn Год назад +1

    This has always been one of my favorite old movies. Favorite line: You look just like Boris Karloff

  • @practicaldreamyr
    @practicaldreamyr Год назад +2

    So glad you're watching older films! Please watch "The Women" (the 1939 version). You will LOVE it! Such a clever classic with so many witty moments.

  • @erryknotarryk
    @erryknotarryk Год назад +1

    My theater teacher threw this on with no intro and omg. it's best enjoyed with no context. one of my favorites still.

  • @servantofmelian9966
    @servantofmelian9966 Год назад +1

    OGBReacts, thank you! It has been decades since I saw this movie and I had forgotten what a delite it is.

  • @bryanlangerud7953
    @bryanlangerud7953 Год назад +6

    Welcome to screwball comedy. The 30’s and 40’s were rife with them. Some good. Some bad. They were the precursor of Naked Gun, Airplane, etc, etc. May I recommend some of the following for your enjoyment; Bringing up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), The Thin Man (1934), The Lady Eve (1941) and A Night at the Opera (1935).

  • @mister62085
    @mister62085 Год назад +2

    Jack Carson played an excellent role in the twilight zone as a used car salesman who all of a sudden had to be honest

  • @WolfsDE
    @WolfsDE Год назад +5

    Some other Cary Grant films you should check out....
    Topper
    His Girl Friday
    Penny Seranade
    The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (with Shirley Temple)
    Amazing Adventure
    But I will always love Arsenic and Old Lace. Amazing cast, well acted. Funny in spite of the obvious dark elements and even with the Brewster family being insane, you feel like they would be good friends. At least the aunts and Teddy. Which is hard to pull off with being serial killers. But they do have that sweetness and gentleness that makes you think they would be good people. Just don't drink the wine. Lol.

  • @kattahj
    @kattahj Год назад +1

    I love this movie! My dad used to yell chaaaaarge every time he rode his bicycle up a hill.

  • @erinesque1889
    @erinesque1889 Год назад +1

    My grandmother’s cousin is in this!!! It’s one of the reasons I absolutely love it!!

  • @susansokoloski2233
    @susansokoloski2233 9 месяцев назад +1

    Your reaction throughout but esp afterwards...that's why it is called " Screwball Comedy." 😂

  • @keishie23
    @keishie23 Год назад +2

    Just love this reaction. Watched this in highschool after reading the play. It’s awesome.

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 Год назад +2

    I think you would enjoy the the magic spun by Cary Grant and Roselyn Russel in His Girls Friday (1940).

  • @ofbutterfliesandbooks384
    @ofbutterfliesandbooks384 Год назад +2

    So many classic films I would love to see you react to:
    Singin' in the Rain
    His Girl Friday
    What's Up Doc?
    Laura (1944)

  • @randallshuck2976
    @randallshuck2976 Год назад +4

    One of my favorites. CHARGE!!!!!!!!!

  • @mack7882
    @mack7882 Год назад +2

    Thanks for watching - 50 yrs ago I got into trouble for laughing so loud when it was on late night that I woke my parents up. A forgotten gem.

  • @stlmopoet
    @stlmopoet Год назад +2

    One of my favorite movies. Have watched many times and never tire of it. He wanted Teddy put away so the murders could be pinned on him. Then he would figure out what to do RE the aunts. Enjoyed your reaction.

  • @troubleondemand7703
    @troubleondemand7703 11 месяцев назад

    This play was so much fun in high school. I did it twice once as Teddy and then as Mortimer. Probably my favorite Cary Grant role. His faces are so amazing.

  • @LadyFeline3
    @LadyFeline3 Год назад +2

    I can't remember when I first watched this (either high school or college), but it was for a class, and I ended up loving it. So glad you reacted to it! If you want another crazy comedy, one which is also a musical, try 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' (that one was definitely in college, for my Latin class).

  • @xedra
    @xedra 11 месяцев назад

    my favorite part of this movie is Mortimer on the staircase mumbling commentary on the chaos going on around him - he was so done LOL!

  • @windsaw151
    @windsaw151 Год назад +1

    9:38 Oh, I remember back when I was a child and saw this movie for the first time, at that yelp I burst out in laughter so that I couldn't breathe anymore.

  • @CrowR75
    @CrowR75 Год назад +2

    Love this movie, thanks for reacting to it! Cary Grant in HIs Girl Friday and She Done Him Wrong are great classics too

  • @MegaTurkeylips
    @MegaTurkeylips Год назад +1

    Teddy keeps reliving his famous charge up San Juan Hill.

  • @505PurpleGirl
    @505PurpleGirl Год назад

    This is my absolute favorite movie ever! It came out 20 years before I was even born. Cary Grant is perfection.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 10 месяцев назад

    23:59 "Tell the lieutenant he can call off the big _manhunt._ We've _found_ him."
    😆😆😆 You've _got_ to love the misunderstanding you see, shaping up here.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 10 месяцев назад +1

    1:51 "Good morning, children. Your name, please?"
    "Elaine Harper."
    "Speak a little louder."
    "Elaine Harper."
    "Thank you. Yours?"
    "Mortimer Brewster."
    "How's that?"
    "Mortimer Brewster."
    "Speak up, sonny. There's nothing to be afraid of."
    Oh, come on, Mortimer. You want to keep it quiet, write it down for him.

  • @bigbow62
    @bigbow62 Год назад +1

    A classic & one of my favorites...
    Cary Grant is a riot in this movie 🙂

  • @caligirlmarti
    @caligirlmarti Год назад +3

    I remember watching this with my mom once. She laughed and laughed throughout this movie. She loved it.

  • @mundanepants
    @mundanepants Год назад

    This feels like an traditional style French stage play where you basically shoot a single room where a dozen people keep coming in and out of doors, having dialogues that are just a cluster of misunderstandings, and everyone is trying to hide both murders and affairs

  • @psychoween
    @psychoween Год назад +1

    Another fave Cary Grant film is “The Awful Truth.” Hysterically funny!

  • @reneemixon3994
    @reneemixon3994 9 месяцев назад

    Watched this movie too many times to count, and I still enjoy it every single time. I enjoy pretty much any and everything CG is in, but his range of comedy in this movie is off the charts, and I loved every minute. The sisters remind me of an old Andy Griffin show when two elderly sisters unbeknownst to them sold moonshine to the town drunks. Anyway, I loved your reaction to this classic, new subscriber!!

  • @jamesfalato4305
    @jamesfalato4305 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great when You find how Ridiculously Funny Films could be Long Ago... With this in mind... 1940s "His Girl Friday" is another Cary Grant Comedy You'll almost certainly Enjoy...

  • @kp22kc
    @kp22kc Год назад +1

    Great reaction! You took it just the way you should have. Couple of interesting facts....this was filmed in 1941, but they waited to release it until the Broadway run of the play was over. Grant hated his performance and thought Jimmy Stewart would have been a better fit. I don't agree...his manic performance was just what was called for. I've watched many performances of the play on RUclips (mostly high school) and none are as fast paced as the movie and that kind of ruins it a bit. The only thing about slowing it down is you get some of the funnier lines where in the movie they might slip by. This is a movie I used to set the alarm for and get up and watch at 1am or 2am (before VCRs.) Have loved it since I first saw it. My favorite Cary Grant film and he has made a bunch of classics. Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @johannesvalterdivizzini1523
    @johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Год назад

    "Madcap comedy" is a great thing--it's never truly dated. The original Broadway show starred Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) as Johnathan. This play is still widely performed in community/regional theaters and schools.

  • @pennypierce6511
    @pennypierce6511 Год назад +2

    Manic comedies are the best. Black and white is a bonus.

  • @phillipsmith5013
    @phillipsmith5013 Год назад +8

    I absolutely love Cary Grant in Father Goose. It's another great movie by him. You should react to it sometime.

  • @browniewin4121
    @browniewin4121 Год назад +2

    I first saw this as a play, then the movie when I was a little kid, loved it, always remembered it fondly.
    Cary Grant has starred in so many delightful movies over a long career, one of my favorites is Charade (1963).

  • @rg3388
    @rg3388 Год назад +2

    This film has a special place in my heart. Back in his college days, my dad played the "Teddy" role on stage.

  • @chrisboot2468
    @chrisboot2468 Год назад +1

    I once played Johnathon in an amateur production. It was great fun!

  • @DuneFreak66
    @DuneFreak66 Год назад +3

    LOVE this movie, a Halloween must! As a kid, this was scary, as an adult, I laughed my bum off.

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 Год назад +2

    If you like political thrillers, I’d suggest the Manchurian Candidate with Angela Lansbury. She deserved an Oscar just for one of her monologues.

  • @carlbaker7242
    @carlbaker7242 Год назад +1

    Hey now . Still here pulling up some of your good stuff and loving it. Your reactions are to DIE for!!!

  • @angelcarrillo71
    @angelcarrillo71 Год назад +5

    This is not a criticism of your channel, but you must have the most eclectic subscribers/paetrons cause you have the most wide range of movie reactions I've seen on any channel. You have expected classics, but for the most part, you have outside out the box classics. Glad you enjoyed it. Another Cary Grant Screwball Comedy that I'd really recommend is His Girl Friday. If it hasn't been recommended already. It's another fast paced what the f**k is going on good time. Much love

    • @OGBReacts
      @OGBReacts  Год назад +4

      My community is a bunch of lovely folks and I appreciate them and all of their requests and recommendations!
      On this channel, Tuesday videos are Patron requests, while Friday videos are of movies that I put on a poll and folks choose one for that upcoming Friday.
      So many people have been wanting me to watch this, so I put it on last weeks poll and it won!
      I'm genuinely always trying to see what people are wanting, and whatever I hear the most noise about it terms of what people are looking for, I put it on the polls, while also including films I've been genuinely wanting to watch as well!

  • @rocketeer3667
    @rocketeer3667 Год назад +3

    Hi Sam! Another classic movie for your viewing pleasure:
    ☀ THE THIN MAN ☀

  • @jeannejorgensen1230
    @jeannejorgensen1230 Год назад +1

    I’ve always loved this movie! Carey Grant was brilliant

  • @R.J.Godzilla81
    @R.J.Godzilla81 Год назад +2

    8’m really glad you liked it. I remember watching this when I was a kid. It was a late night showing on PBS (back in the 80’s when PBS used to do that), it was already in progress so I didn’t know what the title of the movie was, but I really enjoyed it. A few years later my Grandparents watched to show me movie that they thought I’d enjoy. As we started watching it I looked kinda familiar but I couldn’t place it. Then Johnathan and Dr Einstein showed up and BOOM I recognized it immediately as the movie I really liked but didn’t know the title of, and from that day forward I knew this movie by title and plot; and anytime some one says that classic movies can’t be good I tell them about Arsenic & Old Lace.

  • @midianmtd
    @midianmtd Год назад +1

    And just think, this was directed by Frank Capra. Two years before he released ''It's A Wonderful Life''.

  • @cinemacodey
    @cinemacodey Год назад +1

    There's so much screaming and chaos, running around. I hated it at first but now I think its pretty good. Mortimer drove me crazy though. Love the aunts and Teddy.

  • @MagetaTheLionHeart
    @MagetaTheLionHeart Год назад +1

    Posting this before watching, what a great classic comedy and something tells me you'll laugh enough to feel drugged.

    • @OGBReacts
      @OGBReacts  Год назад

      Hope you enjoyed watching!

  • @rw4487
    @rw4487 Год назад +1

    One of those movies I watched as a child with my mom

  • @Andy-ju8bb
    @Andy-ju8bb Год назад +3

    Lots of work dealing with the 1944 yellow fever outbreak.

  • @Usurper123
    @Usurper123 Год назад +1

    This one and Father Goose are my favorite Carry Grant movies. Followed only by Operation Petty Coat.

  • @darrenhoskins8382
    @darrenhoskins8382 Год назад +2

    Pure brilliance! Cary Grant could do anything 🤔☺️☺️❤️

  • @donovanmedieval
    @donovanmedieval Год назад +1

    Cary Grant's unmistakable Brooklyn accent.

  • @gailjohnston1248
    @gailjohnston1248 Год назад +1

    This movie is just a mixed bag of Nuts all the way around!😛 Your reactions to it was the best Sam lol!

  • @garyb5998
    @garyb5998 Год назад +1

    Massively impressed you reacted to this Classic 😎😍

  • @jenkzkh
    @jenkzkh Год назад +3

    FIRST COMMENT!!! LOL Thanks for watching this. Another wonderful Carry Grant he is in is Topper and Topper 2. Both are great and hilarious. Carry and his girlfriend become ghosts.

  • @beansfriend7033
    @beansfriend7033 Год назад +2

    Love that you finally got around to this one - I adore it! Cary Grant has so many great films (I saw recommendations for _His Girl Friday_ and _Holiday_ already; great picks, and I'd add _The Philadelphia Story_ and his Alfred Hitchcock films, among others). That man is just delightful, you probably wouldn't go wrong exploring his filmography.

  • @toodlescae
    @toodlescae Год назад +3

    I'm not a Brewster! I'm a son of a sea cook! 🤣😂🤣
    Really enjoyed watching you go almost as crazy as the Brewsters.
    You really should check out *The Thin Man* from 1934. It's a murder mystery with humor. Not as nuts as this but fun nonetheless.

  • @enchantedwooddesigns3462
    @enchantedwooddesigns3462 Год назад +2

    I have been waiting for someone to see this movie. It is so funny to me and Cary Grants acting, reactions and facial expressions always make me laugh. Glad you enjoyed it )

  • @dawns.427
    @dawns.427 Год назад +1

    I love this definition of a madcap comedy. And Cary Grant! Another of his Wacky comedies that I absolutely love is Bringing Up Baby with Katherine Hepburn. Hilarious and crazy!

    • @OGBReacts
      @OGBReacts  Год назад

      I've watched/reacted to that as well!! ruclips.net/video/g9xVd4-ythQ/видео.html