Film

Arsenic and Old Lace

Release year

1944

Synopsis

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!

Directed by

Frank Capra

Cast

Cary Grant
Priscilla Lane
Josephine Hull
Jean Adair
Raymond Massey
John Alexander

Poster artist

Gösta Åberg