Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 118 min Comedy, Crime

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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budget $1,120,175

director Frank Capra

writers Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein

cast