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Arsenic and Old Lace

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Arsenic and Old Lace
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NR,1hr 58min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1944
Director:
Frank Capra
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey  ...more
Synopsis: Arsenic and Old Lace is director Frank Capra's spin on the classic Joseph Kesselring stage comedy, which concerns the sweet old Brewster sisters (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), beloved in their genteel Brooklyn neighborhood for their many charitable acts. One charity which the ladies don't advertise is their ongoing effort to permit lonely bachelors to die with smiles on their faces--by serving said bachelors elderberry wine spiked with arsenic. When the sisters' drama-critic nephew Mortimer (Cary ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
This hilariously droll black comedy is one of the most successful adaptations of theater to film. The deft portraits of two classically sweet little old ladies (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who invite bachelors to dinner and then poison them with spiked elderberry wine are at the center of the increasingly frantic proceedings. A homicidal nephew and another who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt add to ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane
Elaine Harper
Raymond Massey
Jonathan Brewster
Jack Carson
Officer O'Hara
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