Rating-PG
Director-Frank Capra
Actors-Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond
Massey
Genre-Dark Comedy
Year-1944
“Arsenic
And Old Lace” is a very entertaining dark comedy. Based on the play by Joseph
Kesselring, it is about a man named Mortimer (Cary Grant) who has just gotten
married. When Mortimer visits his aunts Abby (Josephine Hull) and Martha (Jean
Adair) to tell them the news, he discovers a shocking secret about them. Abby
and Martha have been poisoning lonely elderly men with wine laced with arsenic,
which they view as a mercy killing. As Mortimer struggles with this
information, he has to deal with his eccentric brother Teddy (John Alexander),
who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt. Also complicating things is the arrival of
Mortimer’s estranged criminal brother, Jonathan (Raymond Massey). This movie
has many hilarious scenes and great performances by the cast. I recommend
watching “Arsenic And Old Lace”.
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