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Arsenic and Old Lace

(1944)

September 1, 1944• 1h 58m
76%
TMDB Score

Overview

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!

Frank Capra

Director

Top Billed Cast

CG

Cary Grant

Mortimer Brewster

PL

Priscilla Lane

Elaine Harper Brewster

JH

Josephine Hull

Aunt Abby Brewster

JA

Jean Adair

Aunt Martha Brewster

RM

Raymond Massey

Jonathan Brewster

JA

John Alexander

'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster

PL

Peter Lorre

Dr. Einstein

JC

Jack Carson

Officer Patrick O'Hara

EEH

Edward Everett Horton

Mr. Witherspoon

JG

James Gleason

Lt. Rooney

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