Arsenic and old lace, Warner Brothers Pictures ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra
Type
Label
Arsenic and old lace, Warner Brothers Pictures ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Arsenic and old lace
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
1341211871
Responsibility statement
Warner Brothers Pictures ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra
Runtime
118
Summary
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Carson, Jack, 1910-1963
- Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
- Massey, Raymond
- Gleason, James, 1886-1959
- Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957
- Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995
- Alexander, John, 1897-1982
- Adair, Jean, 1873-1953
- Grant, Cary, 1904-1986
- Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968
- Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000
- Lorre, Peter
- Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
- Epstein, Philip G.
- Horton, Edward Everett
- Mandell, Daniel
- Crouse, Russel, 1893-1966
- Polito, Sol, 1892-1960
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967
- Mitchell, Grant, 1874-1957
Genre
Subject
- Comedy films
- Aunts -- Drama
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Mentally ill -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama
- Families -- Drama
- Feature films
- Serial murders -- Drama
- Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967 -- Film adaptations
- Fiction films
- Murder -- Drama
- Arsenic + Toxicology -- Drama
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- Carson, Jack, 1910-1963
- Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
- Massey, Raymond
- Gleason, James, 1886-1959
- Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957
- Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995
- Alexander, John, 1897-1982
- Adair, Jean, 1873-1953
- Grant, Cary, 1904-1986
- Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968
- Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000
- Lorre, Peter
- Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
- Epstein, Philip G.
- Horton, Edward Everett
- Mandell, Daniel
- Crouse, Russel, 1893-1966
- Polito, Sol, 1892-1960
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967
- Mitchell, Grant, 1874-1957
- Genre5
- Subject13
- Comedy films
- Aunts -- Drama
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Mentally ill -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama
- Families -- Drama
- Feature films
- Serial murders -- Drama
- Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967 -- Film adaptations
- Fiction films
- Murder -- Drama
- Arsenic + Toxicology -- Drama
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