Arsenic And Old Lace
Criminal events continue in an interesting movie, and events begin when Mortimer Brewster, his newlyweds visiting Brooklyn, visits. They work in the care of older women but Mortimer soon discovers they are serial killers. Worse yet is that the victim's last body is hidden in a box in their living room, where anyone can find it. Mortimer is doing his best to get rid of the evidence.
29 November 1897, Newport, Kentucky, USA
17 June 1874, Columbus, Ohio, USA
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
28 May 1887, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1911, Fresno, California, USA
14 August 1884, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
3 January 1877, Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA
15 May 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 March 1908, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
March 25, 1875 in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA
27 October 1910, Carman, Manitoba, Canada
23 May 1882, New York City, New York, USA
18 March 1886, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
14 January 1865, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
12 June 1915, Indianola, Iowa, USA
18 February 1891, Orange, New Jersey, USA
18 February 1902, Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA
13 June 1873, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
10 June 1873, New York City, New York, USA
September 9, 1887 in Plymouth, Indiana, USA
30 August 1896, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6 September 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 June 1904, Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary [now Ruzomberok, Slovakia]
18 January 1904, Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
17 November 1872, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
July 17, 2005
Unable to conceal the film's theatrical origins, Capra misfires as a director and misguides Cary Garnt, who's too mannered, but the time, the combo of horror and comedy was new and the old ladies' gruseome hobby was shocking to audiences.
October 25, 2004
Charge! off to see this classic Capra screwballer.
September 27, 2003
has stood the test of time to remain as funny today as anything Hollywood is producing now.
December 14, 2010
Cary Grant serial-killer comedy classic is cozy and tame.
June 24, 2006
Dusty but gentle entertainment.
October 22, 2013
The film was adapted from a successful stage play and it comes across as very theatrical on screen, but once you get past that, there's an enjoyable lunacy to the whole thing.
February 22, 2016
Today the stellar cast comes across as overacting, mugging into predictable pratfalls, blustering obtuseness and telegraphed laff lines.
August 13, 2007
The timing is abysmal throughout, turning fast pace into numbing frenzy.
August 13, 2007
Riotously funny.
August 08, 2006
Good macabre fun.
October 22, 2013
Cary Grant et al are on sparkling form in this classic darkly twisted comedy.
August 13, 2007
Despite the fact that picture runs 118 minutes, Frank Capra has expanded on the original play [by Joseph Kesselring] to a sufficient extent to maintain a steady, consistent pace.
