Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
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A comedy crime thriller about a writer who marries his fiancée despite his murderous maiden aunts. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic film.
- (75K)
- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Frank Capra
- 1944-09-21
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 ...
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.
Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope There's A Fatted Calf Daffy Aunts Abby and Martha (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair) are wondering why nephew Mortimer (Cary Grant, not seen) is so upset over their murder habit when his criminally insane brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey), with sidekick Einstein (Peter Lorre), appears, in Arsenic And Old Lace, 1944.
Jul 4, 2014 · Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my favourite films. I have not watched it for over 25 years, but it is as beautifully made and as funny as the last time I watched it. I knew what was coming in action and the best lines and it was as familiar to me as if I had watched it yesterday. They just dont make films like this any more.
- 113 min
- 35.2K
- Alexcazam
A comedy about a family of murderous aunts and their nephews, one of whom is a drama critic and the other a serial killer. The nephews try to hide their relatives' secrets from their fiancée and the police, while the aunts continue their "charity" of killing lonely old men.
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A classic comedy film starring Cary Grant as a man who marries a woman and discovers his family is full of murderers. Read the ratings, reviews, and watch the trailer on Rotten Tomatoes.
- (35)
- Comedy
