Arsenic and Old Lace
She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane
Elaine Harper
Raymond Massey
Jonathan Brewster
Jack Carson
O'Hara
Edward Everett Horton
Mr. Witherspoon
Peter Lorre
Dr. Einstein
James Gleason
Police Lt. Rooney
Josephine Hull
Abby Brewster
Jean Adair
Martha Brewster
John Alexander
'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Max Steiner
Composer
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Sol Polito
Cinematographer
