Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

7.9Approved118 minDirector: Frank Capra

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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Cary Grant
Josephine Hull
Jean Adair
Raymond Massey
Peter Lorre
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