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Arsenic and Old Lace. A theater critic (Cary Grant) learns his two elderly aunts serve poisoned elderberry wine to lonely gentlemen callers. Streaming on Roku. Arsenic and Old Lace, a comedy movie starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, and Priscilla Lane is available to stream now. Watch it on Prime Video or Fandango at Home on your Roku device.
Arsenic and Old Lace is director Frank Capra's spin on the classic Joseph Kesselring stage comedy, which concerns the sweet old Brewster sisters (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), beloved in their genteel Brooklyn neighborhood for their many charitable acts.
Oscar-winner Cary Grant ("The Awful Truth," "Suspicion," "North by Northwest") stars as a drama critic whose life is turned upside down when he discovers that his two spinster aunts have taken to poisoning their gentlemen house guests and burying the bodies in their old Victorian home. A classic and hilarious black comedy based on the popular Broadway play. Directed and produced by Oscar ...
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Nov 9, 2010 · Product Description. Arsenic and Old Lace (DVD) (Rpkg) Cary Grant stars as the one sane member of a charmingly lunatic family in director Frank Capra's classic comedy. When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discovers that, among many other acts of charity, the two genteel ladies help lonely old men ...
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Oct 14, 2010 · Arsenic and Old Lace is one of Frank Capra’s “oddest choices of material,” as Joseph McBride describes it in Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. “Odd” because it was the first sign of the director’s abandonment of his theme of social conscious, expressed so well earlier in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ...
Synopsis. Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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