Film

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944

Directed by Frank Capra

  • Comedy, Crime
  • 118 min
  • NR

She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

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!

ComedyCrimepoisoncemeteryinsanitycellarmarriagemurderserial killerwritercorpsecritic

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Comic, relentless, resolved and classical in form.

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