Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · 118 min · ★ 7.6 / 10 · 1080 votes

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!

Cast

Cary Grant · Priscilla Lane · Josephine Hull · Jean Adair · Raymond Massey · John Alexander · Peter Lorre · Jack Carson · Edward Everett Horton · James Gleason

Director

Frank Capra