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Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 • 1h58m Comedy, Crime

Rating

7.6/10

Popularity

3

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!

Details

Director

Frank Capra

Screenplay

Julius J. Epstein

Philip G. Epstein

Cast

Cary Grant

Priscilla Lane

Josephine Hull

Release date

9/1/1944

Status

Released

Budget

$1,120,175

Origin country

US

Vote count

1026