What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

6/3/2023

When the unseen "Mr. Marrable" dies, his widow (Geraldine Page) finds that her husband's death has left her broke so she must find means to continue to thrive. To that end, she invites a succession of older ladies, widows and spinsters mainly, to come and be her companion at her desert home. Over time, each one disappears just as a nice new conifer appears in her garden. Ruth Gordon ("Mrs. Dimmock") - the eponymous aunt - is the latest to arrive, along with her reported $46,000 which tantalises our rather mercenary hostess and we expect the usual course of action to repeat itself once again. Well it turns out that "Dimmock" isn't so naive as her predecessors and was, indeed, a friend of one of them - and so she is suspicious... Will she go the way of the others? Page is quite good as the m