ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

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• Release Year: 1944
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
• Plot: Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who ply lonely geezers with poisoned libations, one sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers brother (John Alexander) who things he's Teddy Roosevelt, one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane) - and only one night to make it turn out all right. In this circus' center ring is Grant, twisting his face into a clown's gallery of flabbergasted reactions and transforming his natural athetic grace into a rubber-legged comic ballet. You'll die laughing.
• Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry Owen, John Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser, Chester Clute, Charles Lane, Edward McWade, Spencer Charters, Sol Gorss, Herbert Gunn, Roland Jones, Hank Mann, Spec O'Donnell, Lee Phelps, Don Phillips, Raymond Walburn, Leo White, Jean Wong, Frank Capra, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
• Director: Frank Capra
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie