Arsenic and Old Lace
Film1944118 min7.6/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Frank Capra
She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!
The story
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!
Watch trailerCast & crew
Cary GrantMortimer Brewster
Priscilla LaneElaine Harper Brewster
Josephine HullAunt Abby Brewster
Jean AdairAunt Martha Brewster
Raymond MasseyJonathan Brewster
John Alexander'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Peter LorreDr. Einstein
Jack CarsonOfficer Patrick O'Hara
Edward Everett HortonMr. Witherspoon
James GleasonLt. Rooney
Grant MitchellReverend Harper
Edward McNamaraSergeant BrophyExplore the crew
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Producer
- Jack L. Warner
- Producer
- Frank Capra
- Screenplay
- Julius J. Epstein
- Screenplay
- Philip G. Epstein
- Director of Photography
- Sol Polito
- Editor
- Daniel Mandell
- Original Music Composer
- Max Steiner
- Original Music Composer
- Leo F. Forbstein