Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
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1944 · Comedy · 1h 58mArsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American screwball mystery black comedy 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.
- $4.8 million
- Max Steiner
- $1.2 million
- Frank Capra, Jack L. Warner
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. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
- Frank Capra
- 320
- 3 min
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the 1944 film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra . The play was produced by Lindsay and Crouse and directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941.
- January 10, 1941
- Fulton Theatre, Broadway
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.
Newly-married Mortimer Brewster visits his two aunts in Brooklyn. To everyone they are sweet, generous, caring old ladies but Mortimer soon discovers that they are serial killers. What's worse, the body of their latest victim is hidden in a chest in their living room, where anyone could find it.
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 the newlyweds return to ...
- (35)
- Comedy
Film Info. United States. 1944. 118 minutes. Black & White. 1.37:1. English. Spine #1153. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES. New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. New audio commentary featuring Charles Dennis, author of There’s a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of “Arsenic and Old Lace”
