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