Movie: Arsenic and Old Lace The movie Arsenic & Old Lace is based on the play about a movie critique who's two aunts , choose to put lonely men out of there reason by posioning them . Little do they know that there nephew, Jonathan, who left them when he was young, has killed just as many people as they did. Much to Jonathan's surprise , the aunts killed just as many men without the plastic surgery , without the running , they just sat right there . "Charge…" we hear as Teddy Brewster runs up the stairs. This caracter brings out the most comedy in the picture. Teddy is the only character in the movie that proves to b