Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

NR09/01/1944Comedy, Crime1h 58m
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She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

Overview

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Top Billed Cast

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    Cary Grant

    Mortimer Brewster

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    Priscilla Lane

    Elaine Harper Brewster

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    Josephine Hull

    Aunt Abby Brewster

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    Jean Adair

    Aunt Martha Brewster

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    Raymond Massey

    Jonathan Brewster

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    John Alexander

    'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster

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    Peter Lorre

    Dr. Einstein

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    Jack Carson

    Officer Patrick O'Hara

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    Edward Everett Horton

    Mr. Witherspoon

Frenetic roller-coaster ride - Capra style! The Broadway show this film is based on ran for something like four years, such was the yearning for riotous rompathons in the 40s, and thus here the Capra adaptation is pretty much non stop mania. Led by the perfectly cast Cary Grant, the film barely pauses for breath, stopping only briefly to put a bit of creepy menace into the otherwise insane plot. Oh yes the plot, the elderly Brewster sisters are the dear hearts of the neighbourhood, but what folk don't realise is that they are poisoning elderly male visitors to their home to save them from b...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$1,120,175.00

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