Arsenic and Old Lace · 1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

«She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!»

Frank Capra · 118 min · United States of America

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!

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Budget

$1,120,175

Production companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Locations

Setting

Brooklyn

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Cast

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  Cary Grant

  Mortimer Brewster

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  Priscilla Lane

  Elaine Harper Brewster

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  Josephine Hull

  Aunt Abby Brewster

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  Jean Adair

  Aunt Martha Brewster

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  Raymond Massey

  Jonathan Brewster

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  John Alexander

  'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster

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  Peter Lorre

  Dr. Einstein

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  Jack Carson

  Officer Patrick O'Hara