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Arsenic And Old Lace
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A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Actors:
Chester Clute,
Spencer Charters,
Charles Lane,
Hank Mann,
Vaughan Glaser,
Grant Mitchell,
Josephine Hull
Chester Clute
18 February 1891, Orange, New Jersey, USA
Spencer Charters
March 25, 1875 in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA
Charles Lane
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
Hank Mann
28 May 1887, New York City, New York, USA
Vaughan Glaser
17 November 1872, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Grant Mitchell
17 June 1874, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Josephine Hull
3 January 1877, Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA
Country:
United States
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Kansas City Kansan
October 25, 2004
Charge! off to see this classic Capra screwballer.
Common Sense Media
December 14, 2010
Cary Grant serial-killer comedy classic is cozy and tame.
August 08, 2006
Good macabre fun.
September 27, 2003
has stood the test of time to remain as funny today as anything Hollywood is producing now.
June 24, 2006
Dusty but gentle entertainment.
October 22, 2013
The film was adapted from a successful stage play and it comes across as very theatrical on screen, but once you get past that, there's an enjoyable lunacy to the whole thing.
August 13, 2007
Despite the fact that picture runs 118 minutes, Frank Capra has expanded on the original play [by Joseph Kesselring] to a sufficient extent to maintain a steady, consistent pace.
August 13, 2007
Riotously funny.
February 22, 2016
Today the stellar cast comes across as overacting, mugging into predictable pratfalls, blustering obtuseness and telegraphed laff lines.
July 17, 2005
Unable to conceal the film's theatrical origins, Capra misfires as a director and misguides Cary Garnt, who's too mannered, but the time, the combo of horror and comedy was new and the old ladies' gruseome hobby was shocking to audiences.
August 13, 2007
The timing is abysmal throughout, turning fast pace into numbing frenzy.
October 22, 2013
Cary Grant et al are on sparkling form in this classic darkly twisted comedy.