Arsenic and Old Lace
“She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!”
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
25 people
Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
Known for
North by Northwest
Notorious
Priscilla Lane
Elaine Harper Brewster
Known for
Saboteur
The Roaring Twenties
Josephine Hull
Aunt Abby Brewster
Known for
Harvey
Jean Adair
Aunt Martha Brewster
Also in
Something in the Wind
Living in a Big Way
Raymond Massey
Jonathan Brewster
Known for
East of Eden
Things to Come
John Alexander
'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Known for
Winchester '73
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Peter Lorre
Dr. Einstein
Known for
M
Casablanca
Jack Carson
Officer Patrick O'Hara
Known for
Mildred Pierce
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Edward Everett Horton
Mr. Witherspoon
Known for
The Bullwinkle Show
Top Hat
James Gleason
Lt. Rooney
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
The Bishop's Wife
Grant Mitchell
Reverend Harper
Known for
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Grapes of Wrath
Edward McNamara
Sergeant Brophy
Known for
The Strawberry Blonde
The Devil and Miss Jones
Frank Capra Director · Julius J. Epstein Screenplay Philip G. Epstein Screenplay
Budget $1.1M · United States release September 1, 1944 · Produced in United States
Box office
Budget
$1,120,175
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Belgium · September 1, 1944
Theatrical
United States · September 1, 1944
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
September 23, 1944 · Theatrical
Austria
October 17, 1952 · Theatrical
Brazil
December 4, 1944 · Theatrical
Canada
December 31, 1944 · Theatrical
Denmark
August 5, 1948 · Theatrical
France
December 20, 1946 · Theatrical
Germany
May 12, 1952 · Theatrical
Greece
May 12, 1952 · Theatrical
Italy
June 26, 1945 · Theatrical
December 31, 2022 · TV · Byoblu
Japan
September 28, 1948 · Theatrical
Netherlands
March 6, 2008 · Physical · DVD
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