Arsenic and Old Lace

Name: Arsenic and Old Lace
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1944
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey

1944 · 1h58 · Film

Directed by Frank Capra

Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, John Alexander, Peter Lorre, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason

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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!

Updated August 14, 2026