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Arsenic and Old Lace

Name: Arsenic and Old Lace
Director: Frank Capra
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1944-09-01
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey

ComedyCrime

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

Cary GrantPriscilla LaneJosephine HullJean AdairRaymond MasseyJohn AlexanderPeter LorreJack CarsonEdward Everett HortonJames GleasonGrant MitchellEdward McNamara

Director

Frank Capra

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