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  2. Oct 3, 2023 · Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic comedy film that has entertained audiences for decades. Directed by Frank Capra, this 1944 movie is a delightful and hilarious tale that perfectly blends dark humor with light-hearted moments. With its stellar cast, witty dialogue, and captivating storyline, it has become a timeless favorite.

  3. Background. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is a frenzied, hilarious, madcap black comedy from celebrated director Frank Capra. The slapstick film, with murderous aunts compassionately serving up elderberry wine to elderly gentlemen - with their crazy nephew assisting by burying the unfortunate victims, is unlike most of the other reform-minded ...

  4. Oct 14, 2010 · Two elderly maiden sisters of the Brewster family, Abby (Josephine Hull) and Martha (Jean Adair), have been knocking off lonely old men with just the right mixtures of arsenic, strychnine and cyanide—disguised in elderberry wine. “When it’s in tea,” complains Martha, “it has a distinct odor.”. The victims are buried in the cellar ...

  5. Oct 2, 2018 · Arsenic and Old Lace is a masterpiece of black comedy, and basically the perfect movie to watch around Halloween if you’re not really into horror movies.It’s set on Halloween, involves murder ...

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  6. Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. 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.

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  7. Orry-Kelly. Makeup by. Perc Westmore. Music by. Max Steiner. 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 ...

  8. Act 1. Arsenic and Old Lace takes place entirely in the Brewster home in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. As the play opens, Abby Brewster, a sweet, elderly woman is pouring tea for her nephew Teddy and Dr. Harper, a local minister. All note how peaceful the house is, far removed from the war in Europe.

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