Overview
Plot
Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic and author known for his anti-marriage diatribes, suddenly elopes. When he visits his two maiden aunts to share the news, he discovers their deadly hobby: poisoning lonely old men and burying them in the cellar.
- Directors
- Frank Capra
- Cast
- Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, John Alexander, Peter Lorre, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry Owen, John Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser, Chester Clute, Charles Lane, Edward McWade, Hank Mann, Spencer Charters
- Country
- United States of America
- Genre
- Comedy, Crime
- Release date
- 1944-09-01
- Studios
- Warner Bros. Pictures
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Arsenic and Old Lace Plot and Cast
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author famous for his diatribes against marriage, shocks himself by falling in love and getting married. He makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, only to uncover their sinister hobby: killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar.
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