in 1962 and director robert aldrich deliver and to an unprepared world and the amazing spectacle of age bette davis and joan crawford go at each other and chew up the scenery in what ever happen to baby jane . two year later and aldrich follow up with hush . hush and sweet charlotte and with davis and agnes moorehead and olivia de havilland engage in similar nasty hijinks . and in 1969 and aldrich hand the directing rein ( produce only this time ) to lee h. katzin and for what may be view a the third in a loose trilogy of film deal with geriatric battleaxes ( or age gargoyle and a my buddy rob prefers to call them ) have at each other with no quarter give . in what ever happen to aunt alice . and geraldine page play claire marrable and who move to tucson after her husband dy and leave her penniless . what a poor age biddy to do . except knock off a succession of equally age housekeeper companion and steal their cash and plant their remains in the garden . but claire may have meet her match with her next job applicant and alice dimmock and play by the forever feisty ruth gordon . a regard those killing and they be almost completely bloodless and and any comparison that may have be make to 1944 arsenic and old lace may be fair one . but this be hardly a comedy ( well and maybe a very black one ) and and it really be something to see page and gordon rip into each other like two frenzied berserker . the film make excellent use of it desert locale and and gerald fry bizarro score keep the tension ratchet fairly high throughout . the picture conclude rather realistically and albeit tamely and i feel while how much more satisfy would it have be to see claire really go up against the vicious tramp dog and chloe . no telling who would have prevail in that bitch fight .