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

  2. Cast 1

    Priscilla Lane

    Elaine Harper Brewster

  3. Cast 1

    Josephine Hull

    Aunt Abby Brewster

  4. Cast 1

    Jean Adair

    Aunt Martha Brewster

  5. Cast 1

    Raymond Massey

    Jonathan Brewster

  6. Cast 1

    John Alexander

    'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster

  7. Cast 1

    Peter Lorre

    Dr. Einstein

  8. Cast 1

    Jack Carson

    Officer Patrick O'Hara

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    Edward Everett Horton

    Mr. Witherspoon

There are thirteen bodies in the cellar! Oh, piffle. Drama critic Mortimer Brewster has just gotten married. But his newfound wedded bliss is interrupted by the disturbing discovery that his sweet old spinster aunts have been murdering lonely old men with their homemade elderberry wine, and burying the bodies in the cellar. This demented screwball comedy was the film that introduced me to Cary Grant. The utterly black comedic treatment never gets old, and the laughs never let up. Every time he gets another surprise, Grant puts on a slightly different flustered expression. Peter Lorre ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$1,120,175.00

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