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Arsenic and Old Lace

She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

1944★ 7.6 · 1.1K1h 58mComedyCrime

Overview

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!

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Cast

Cary Grant
as Mortimer Brewster

Peter Lorre
as Dr. Einstein

Raymond Massey
as Jonathan Brewster

James Gleason
as Lt. Rooney

Charles Lane
as Reporter at Marriage License Office

Priscilla Lane
as Elaine Harper Brewster

Jack Carson
as Officer Patrick O'Hara

Hank Mann
as Photographer at Marriage License Office (uncredited)

Edward Everett Horton
as Mr. Witherspoon

Grant Mitchell
as Reverend Harper

John Ridgely
as Officer Saunders

Raymond Walburn
as Drummer at baseball game (uncredited)

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Release date: 1944-09-01

Budget: $1,120,175

Runtime: 1h 58m

Genres

ComedyCrime

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