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Arsenic and Old Lace( 1944)

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She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

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!

    Top Billed Cast

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      Cary Grant

      Mortimer Brewster

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      Priscilla Lane

      Elaine Harper Brewster

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      Josephine Hull

      Aunt Abby Brewster

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      Jean Adair

      Aunt Martha Brewster

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      Raymond Massey

      Jonathan Brewster

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      John Alexander

      'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster

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      Peter Lorre

      Dr. Einstein

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      Jack Carson

      Officer Patrick O'Hara

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      Edward Everett Horton

      Mr. Witherspoon

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      James Gleason

      Lt. Rooney

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      Grant Mitchell

      Reverend Harper

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      Edward McNamara

      Sergeant Brophy

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      Garry Owen

      Taxi Cab Driver

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      John Ridgely

      Officer Saunders

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      Vaughan Glaser

      Judge Cullman

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      Chester Clute

      Dr. Gilchrist

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      Charles Lane

      Reporter at Marriage License Office

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      Edward McWade

      Gibbs

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      Hank Mann

      Photographer at Marriage License Office (uncredited)

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      Spencer Charters

      Marriage License Clerk

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      Sol Gorss

      New York Pitcher (uncredited)

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      Lee Phelps

      Umpire (uncredited)

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      Raymond Walburn

      Drummer at baseball game (uncredited)

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      Spec O'Donnell

      Young Man in Line (uncredited)

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      Leo White

      Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

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    Written by John Chard on Mon Jul 01 2019
    Frenetic roller-coaster ride - Capra style! The Broadway show this film is based on ran for something like four years, such was the yearning for riotous rompathons in the 40s, and thus here the Capra adaptation is pretty much non stop mania. Led by the perfectly cast Cary Grant, the film barely pauses for breath, stopping only briefly to put a bit of creepy menace into the otherwise insane plot. Oh yes the plot, the elderly Brewster sisters are the dear hearts of the neighbourhood, but what folk don't realise is that they are poisoning elderly male visitors to their home to save them from be...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    1120175.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • poison
    • cemetery
    • insanity
    • cellar
    • marriage
    • halloween
    • murder
    • serial killer
    • writer
    • corpse
    • critic
    • criterion