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  1. Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American screwball black comedy crime film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein is based on Joseph Kesselring 's 1941 play of the same name . [3]

  2. Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot.

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    • Comedy, Crime, Thriller
    • Frank Capra
    • 1944-09-21
  3. Jul 4, 2014 · Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my favourite films. I have not watched it for over 25 years, but it is as beautifully made and as funny as the last time I watched it. I knew what was coming in action and the best lines and it was as familiar to me as if I had watched it yesterday.

  4. Brief Synopsis. A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.

  5. Arsenic and Old Lace. Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who ...

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  6. Two sweet old aunts take it upon themselves to poison lonely old men with nothing to live for, as an act of charity. Their nephew Mortimer has just got married, and is trying to negotiate his way around the shenanigans of the house, while trying to keep his new bride from fleeing.

  7. Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to ...

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