Movie poster for Arsenic and Old Lace
TMDb Rating
7.6/10

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

ComedyCrime
118 min

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

Plot Summary

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!

Director

Frank Capra

Top Cast

Cary GrantPriscilla LaneJosephine HullJean AdairRaymond Massey

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