Arsenic and Old Lace
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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!
Released: 1944
Category: movie
Running time: 118 min
Language: English
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Filipe Man...
**An extraordinary comedy that stands out for its unpretentiousness.**
I didn't have high expectations when I decided to watch this film, and I think this increased the impact it ended up having ev...
barrymost
There are thirteen bodies in the cellar! Oh, piffle.
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster has just gotten married. But his newfound wedded bliss is interrupted by the disturbing discovery that his swee...
John Chard
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 Cap...
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