Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Comedy / Crime
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Comedy / Crime
Synopsis
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.
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Cast
Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane as Elaine Harper Brewster
Raymond Massey as Jonathan Brewster
Jack Carson as Officer Patrick O'Hara
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Witherspoon