Arsenic and Old Lace

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!

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

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