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1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

Directed by Frank Capra
She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

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!

Duration

1h 58m

Released

September 1, 1944

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7.6

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Cast25

  • Cary Grant
  • Priscilla Lane
  • Josephine Hull
  • Jean Adair
  • Raymond Massey
  • John Alexander
  • Peter Lorre
  • Jack Carson
  • Edward Everett Horton

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