ApprovedArsenic and Old Lace

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IMDB (75,790 votes)

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500M
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Play Time: 118 mins
Comedy, Crime
Arsenic and Old Lace

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!

Status: Released (1944-09-01)
Awards:1 nomination
Screen:Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Productions: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Arsenic and Old Lace
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Reviews

John Chard

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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, t ....

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barrymost

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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 sweet old spinster aunts have been murdering lonely old men with their homemade elderber ....

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Filipe Manuel Neto

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**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 even more: based on a successful play, the film is an extraordinary comedy full of biz ....

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