Arsenic and Old Lace
- Released on
Comedy, Crime
•- Runtime
- 118 mins
(926 votes)
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!
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!
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
- Sol Gorss
- Lee Phelps
- Raymond Walburn
- Spec O'Donnell
- Leo White
Director
- Frank Capra
Producers
- Frank Capra
- Jack L. Warner
Screenwriter
- Philip G. Epstein
- Julius J. Epstein