Arsenic and Old Lace poster
Director Frank Capra
Screenplay Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein

Arsenic and Old Lace

Tagline: She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

Release Date: 1944-09-01

Duration: 118 minutes

Synopsis

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!

Casting

  • Cary Grant
    Mortimer Brewster
  • Peter Lorre
    Dr. Einstein
  • Jack Carson
    Officer Patrick O'Hara
  • Grant Mitchell
    Reverend Harper
  • Charles Lane
    Reporter at Marriage License Office
  • James Gleason
    Lt. Rooney
  • Edward Everett Horton
    Mr. Witherspoon
  • Leo White
    Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
  • Priscilla Lane
    Elaine Harper Brewster
  • John Ridgely
    Officer Saunders