Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · 1 hr 58 min · Approved

Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Directors

Frank Capra

Actors

  • Cary Grant
  • Priscilla Lane
  • Raymond Massey

Credits: 1

Summary

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...

More about this movie

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.