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]

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.

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the 1944 film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra .

2014年7月4日 · A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. 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 ... More... I watched it.

Newly-married Mortimer Brewster visits his two aunts in Brooklyn. To everyone they are sweet, generous, caring old ladies but Mortimer soon discovers that they are serial killers. What's worse, the body of their latest victim is hidden in a chest in their living room, where anyone could find it.

Based on the play Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, as produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (New York, 10 Jan 1941). A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Oscar-winner Cary Grant ("The Awful Truth," "Suspicion," "North by Northwest") stars as a drama critic whose life is turned upside down when he discovers that his two spinster aunts have...

2014年10月17日 · Frank Capra’s 1944 film version of “Arsenic and Old Lace,’’ released 70 years ago and showing Saturday (Oct. 18) at Film Forum, is one of the most beloved and popular comedies from...

Arsenic & Old Lace is a 1962 television film directed by George Schaefer and starring Tony Randall, Dorothy Stickney, and Mildred Natwick.It first aired as the 3rd episode of season 11 of the NBC anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame. [1] It is an adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's 1939 play Arsenic and Old Lace.