ARSENIC & OLD LACE - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1944
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who both starred in the Broadway production) greet him with love, sweetness . . . and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff (Raymond Massey), and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
• 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, Joseph Kesselring
• Director: Frank Capra
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Media Format: Movie