Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
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Arsenic and Old Lace
“She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!”
1 Sept 1944 · 118 min · English
ComedyCrime
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The film
Synopsis
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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Cast & characters
Priscilla Lane
Elaine Harper Brewster
Josephine Hull
Aunt Abby Brewster
Jean Adair
Aunt Martha Brewster
Raymond Massey
Jonathan Brewster
John Alexander
'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Peter Lorre
Dr. Einstein
Jack Carson
Officer Patrick O'Hara
Edward Everett Horton
Mr. Witherspoon
James Gleason
Lt. Rooney
Grant Mitchell
Reverend Harper
Edward McNamara
Sergeant Brophy
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Key crew
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writing
- Philip G. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring, Julius J. Epstein
- Cinematography
- Sol Polito
- Original music
- Max Steiner, Leo F. Forbstein
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