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Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American screwball black comedy crime film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein is based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 play of the same name. [3] The contract with the play's producers stipulated that the film would not be released until the ...
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Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot.
- (75K)
- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Frank Capra
- 1944-09-21
Jul 4, 2014 · This is one of the greatest movies ever made. There isn't a single bad part in the entire thing. The actors were absolutely fantastic, as was the directing. A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
- 113 min
- 35.8K
- Alexcazam
A young man (Cary Grant) about to be married discovers his two aunts are poisoning lonely old men in. SYNOPSIS Drama critic and notorious anti-marriage columnist Mortimer Brewster sneaks off on Halloween and weds Brooklyn girl Elaine Harper despite objections from her father, a preacher.
Arsenic and Old Lace. Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When...
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- Cary Grant
- Frank Capra
- Comedy
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! Frank Capra. Director.
Arsenic and Old Lace. Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who ...
