Monday, April 17, 2017

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace





Director:

Frank Capra

Writer:

Julius J. Epstein (screen play), Philip G. Epstein (screen play), Joseph Kesselring (play)

Stars:

Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson

Genres:

Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.

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