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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.
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Arsenic and Old Lace, the tale of two spinster ladies who innocently decide to kill single lonely old men to `put them out of their misery' is an absolute comedy classic. There is not one character in this film that doesn't illicit at least a few laughs throughout the film.
Feb 14, 2023. Oct 31, 2022. 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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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
Assessing the film in 1968, Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg state in Hollywood in the Forties that "Frank Capra provided a rather overstated and strained version of Arsenic and Old Lace". On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10.
- $4.8 million
- Max Steiner
- $1.2 million
- Frank Capra, Jack L. Warner
Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) -- (Movie Clip) All Alone In The World Mortimer (Cary Grant) is desperate to delay his bride (Priscilla Lane) and have his uncle committed, having just discovered his aunts Abby and Martha (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair) like to poison old men, when a candidate (Edward McWade) appears, in Arsenic And Old Lace, 1944.
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.