MOVIE · 1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
ComedyCrimeThriller118 min
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaper drama critic who’s spent years railing against marriage, so his sudden wedding is surprise enough — until a trip home to tell his maiden aunts reveals a body in the window seat. Cary Grant is Mortimer, trying to keep his new bride and his increasingly unmanageable family from colliding as he learns that Abby and Martha, with Josephine Hull and Jean Adair’s deceptively gentle charm, have been poisoning lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. Frank Capra turns the cozy family house into a place of mounting panic, with murder, romance, and manic comic confusion all jammed through the front door.
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