Arsenic and Old Lace

She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

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Crime
Comedy

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!

Details

Status: Released
Release date: September 1, 1944
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Cary Grant,Priscilla Lane,Josephine Hull,Jean Adair,Raymond Massey,John Alexander,Peter Lorre,Jack Carson,Edward Everett Horton,James Gleasonand 15 more
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Philip G. Epstein,Joseph Kesselring,Julius J. Epstein
Producer: Frank Capra,Jack L. Warner
Cinematography: Sol Polito
Music: Max Steiner,Leo F. Forbstein
Budget: $1,120,175
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0036613