Arsenic and Old Lace

4.2

(1.3K)

Comedy

Crime

1944

118 min

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!

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Comedy

Crime

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"Great film! I'm a Cary Grant film buff!"

Sonia Barajas ♡

"One of the best all-time comedies"

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Zelda Pliff

"This is probably the first Cary grant film I watched and fell in love with him… #goals "

Pey Dé

"A delightfully wonderful comedy! "

Connor Blackwood

"I love everything Cary Grant was in. He is such an amazing actor. Watched this every fall with my Daughter"

Jules

"Cary Grant is so funny in this movie as he goes crazy trying to save his aunts from themselves."

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Lauren Weiss

"Cary Grant at his screwball best as the only sane member of a wonderful family of loonies! I can’t recommend it enough!"

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Scott McElhaney

"Filmed in 1941, but due to contractional agreements between the Broadway production and the Film Studio (Warner Bros) it would ultimately not be released to the general public until September of 1944. It is included in my list of films from 1943 as it was released to the Allied Forces as a way to boost morale. Frank Capra noted that while deployed he heard fellow soldiers yelling “Charge!” like the “Teddy Roosevelt” character. "