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.
A Filmmaker's Review: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
1944, Film Title: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, Director: FRANK CAPRA, Studio: WARNER, Pictured: FRANK CAPRA, JACK CARSON. (Credit Image: SNAP Stock Photo - Alamy
PETER LORRE and RAYMOND MASSEY in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, 1944, directed by FRANK CAPRA. Copyright WARNER BROTHERS. - Album alb256143
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - IMDb
Arsenic and Old Lace Original 1944 Swedish B1 Movie Poster - Posteritati Movie Poster Gallery
Arsenic and Old Lace – Bedford Playhouse
A Filmmaker's Review: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, from left, Josephine Hull, John Alexander, Jean Adair, 1944 Stock Photo - Alamy
Arsenic and Old Lace : Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, John Alexander, Jack Carson, John Ridgely, Edward McNamara, James Gleason, Grant Mitchell, Edward Everett
CARY GRANT, PETER LORRE and RAYMOND MASSEY in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, 1944, directed by FRANK CAPRA. Copyright WARNER BROTHERS. - Album alb538693
