Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Arsenic and Old Lace
5.3
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  • Genre: Comedy Crime
  • Running time: 118 min
  • Premiere: 1st of September 1944

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
Charles Lane
as Reporter at Marriage License Office
Raymond Massey
as Jonathan Brewster
James Gleason
as Lt. Rooney
Edward Everett Horton
as Mr. Witherspoon
Jack Carson
as Officer Patrick O'Hara
John Ridgely
as Officer Saunders
Priscilla Lane
as Elaine Harper Brewster
Grant Mitchell
as Reverend Harper
Josephine Hull
as Aunt Abby Brewster
Spencer Charters
as Marriage License Clerk
Lee Phelps
as Umpire (uncredited)
Hank Mann
as Photographer at Marriage License Office (uncredited)
Leo White
as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
Garry Owen
as Taxi Cab Driver
Chester Clute
as Dr. Gilchrist
Jean Adair
as Aunt Martha Brewster
Edward McWade
as Gibbs
John Alexander
as 'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Raymond Walburn
as Drummer at baseball game (uncredited)
Edward McNamara
as Sergeant Brophy
Spec O'Donnell
as Young Man in Line (uncredited)
Vaughan Glaser
as Judge Cullman

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