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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!

1944 · NR · 1h 58m

Directed by Frank Capra

7.6

TMDB audience score
1,094 votes, out of 10

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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

  • Cary Grant
    Mortimer Brewster

  • 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

  • Garry Owen
    Taxi Cab Driver

  • John Ridgely
    Officer Saunders

  • Vaughan Glaser
    Judge Cullman

  • Chester Clute
    Dr. Gilchrist

  • Charles Lane
    Reporter at Marriage License Office

  • Edward McWade
    Gibbs