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86% Tomatometer 35 Reviews 92% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and...
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- Cary Grant
- Frank Capra
- Comedy
"Arsenic and Old Lace" is a hilarious screwball comedy by Frank Capra based on a theater play. The plot and the characters are very funny with Josephine Hull and Jean Adair performing two innocent serial-killers believing that the death of their victims is charity.
Regardless of Cary Grant's thoughts on the film, Arsenic and Old Lace is one of the best comedies of all time. Full Review | Jan 12, 2022. Mike Massie Gone With The Twins. In its...
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Cary Grant serial-killer comedy classic is cozy and tame. Read Common Sense Media's Arsenic and Old Lace review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
- Frank Capra
- Warner Home Video
With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
- (75K)
- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Frank Capra
- 1944-09-21
Arsenic and Old Lace is undoubtedly one of the wackiest Cary Grant films ever made. It’s a broad, screwball farce filled with gasping double takes, outlandish silliness and pratfalling face-plants.
Reviews. Dec 31, 1943 11:00pm PT. Arsenic and Old Lace. Despite the fact that picture runs 118 minutes, Frank Capra has expanded on the original play [by Joseph Kesselring] to a...