Arsenic and Old Lace

Year: 1944

Runtime: 118 mins

Language: English

Director: Frank Capra

CrimeComedyCrude humor and satireRelationship comedyGags jokes and slapstick humor

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic who constantly derides marriage, unexpectedly falls in love and marries. He hurried home to tell his two spinster aunts, only to discover that they have been luring lonely men, poisoning them and hiding the bodies in their cellar—a deadly hobby that has already claimed thirteen victims. Mortimer must stop them.

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