Arsenic and Old Lace

About Arsenic and Old Lace

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!

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is a comedy crime film directed by Frank Capra. At 118 minutes long, it arrived in September 1944.

Its themes are insanity, cemetery, corpse, and poison.

Cary Grant takes the lead as Mortimer Brewster, Priscilla Lane as Elaine Harper Brewster, Josephine Hull as Aunt Abby Brewster, and Jean Adair as Aunt Martha Brewster. The screenplay is by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. In the United States it streams on fuboTV.

The Premature Burial, Se7en, and Psycho make useful companions to Arsenic and Old Lace, all filed under marriage and murder. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 1,088 votes and it carries a NR rating.