Arsenic and Old Lace

7.6 / 10

(895 votes)

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!

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Comedy,

Crime

Duration:

118 minutes

Year:

1944

Director:

Frank Capra

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Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast:
Cary Grant

Mortimer Brewster

Priscilla Lane

Elaine Harper Brewster

Josephine Hull

Aunt Abby Brewster

Jean Adair

Aunt Martha Brewster

Raymond Massey

Jonathan Brewster

Crew:
Philip G. Epstein

Screenplay

Jack L. Warner

Producer

Joseph Kesselring

Theatre Play

Frank Capra

Producer

Julius J. Epstein

Screenplay