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In some ways, Arsenic and Old Lace works as a comically grotesque vision of the American family and shares many similarities with the macabre humor of cartoonist Charles Addams. The film version was produced in 1941, but Warner Bros. delayed its release for three years until the stage version finished its run.
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 ...
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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.
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 (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who ...
Oct 10, 2022 · Arsenic and Old Lace. Blu-ray edition reviewed by Chris Galloway. October 10 2022. BUY AT: See more details, packaging, or compare. Synopsis. Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre.
Fandom. Share. Available to Rent or Buy. Watch Now. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) NR 09/01/1944 (US) Comedy , Crime 1h 58m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend! Overview.
Arsenic 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.
