Arsenic and old lace, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra
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Label
Arsenic and old lace, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Arsenic and old lace
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
1341211871
Responsibility statement
Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra
Runtime
118
Series statement
Criterion collection, 1153
Summary
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Classification
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- Carson, Jack, 1910-1963
- Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
- Massey, Raymond
- Gleason, James, 1886-1959
- Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957
- Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Alexander, John, 1897-1982
- Adair, Jean, 1873-1953
- Grant, Cary, 1904-1986
- Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000
- Lorre, Peter
- Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
- Epstein, Philip G.
- Horton, Edward Everett
- Mandell, Daniel
- Polito, Sol, 1892-1960
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967
- First National Pictures, Inc
- Mitchell, Grant, 1874-1957
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- Carson, Jack, 1910-1963
- Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
- Massey, Raymond
- Gleason, James, 1886-1959
- Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957
- Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995
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- Alexander, John, 1897-1982
- Adair, Jean, 1873-1953
- Grant, Cary, 1904-1986
- Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000
- Lorre, Peter
- Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
- Epstein, Philip G.
- Horton, Edward Everett
- Mandell, Daniel
- Polito, Sol, 1892-1960
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967
- First National Pictures, Inc
- Mitchell, Grant, 1874-1957
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