 | | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944/United States)
 | Warner Home Video, Turner Entertainment Company (United States) | | Director: | Frank Capra | | Writing: | Julius J. Epstein (Screenwriter), Philip G. Epstein (Screenwriter), Joseph Kesselring (Original Material By) | | Length: | 118 min. | | Video: | Full Frame 1.33:1 | | Audio: | English: Dolby Digital: Mono | | Subtitles: | English, French |
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Stars:Cary Grant (1904) as Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane as Elaine Harper
Raymond Massey (1896) as Jonathan Brewster
Jack Carson as O'Hara
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Witherspoon
Plot:Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who ply lonely geezers with poisoned libations, one sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers brother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane)—and only one night to make it turn out all right. In this circus' center ring is Grant, twisting his face into a clown's gallery of flabbergasted reactions and transforming his natural athletic grace into a rubber-legged comic ballet. You'll die laughing.
Extras:- Scene Access
- Production Notes
- Closed Captioned
My Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this film. It was a lot of fun to watch. I liked the entire cast in this one. Especially the much thinner then I am used to seeing Peter Lorre. This film has a lot of laugh out loud moments, Definitely highly recommended!
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