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Arsenic and Old Lace

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Original title

Arsenic and Old Lace

Year

1944

Running time

118 min.

Country

United States

Director

Frank Capra

Screenwriter

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Play: Joseph Kesselring

Cast

Music

Max Steiner

Cinematography

Sol Polito (B&W)

Producer

Warner Bros.

Genre

Comedy | Black Comedy. Screwball comedy. Crime. Serial Killers

Synopsis

Mortimer Brewster stops off in Brooklyn to visit his two favourite aunts Abby and Martha to tell them that he has just gotten married. However, he discovers the dotty old dears have been feeding their boarders poisoned elderberry wine, desiring only to make them happy in death. They have then convinced their mad brother who imagines he is Teddy Roosevelt to bury the thirteen bodies in the cellar. The situation becomes even crazier when Mortimer’s long lost brother Jonathan, who is on the Ten Most Wanted List, also turns up.

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