Arsenic and old lace /
Arsenic and old lace /
Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for Warner Bros. ; directed by Frank Capra.
- DVD special edition.
, United States
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. stamping
- Criterion collection ; 1153 .
- Criterion collection ; 1153. .
From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring. Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1). Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer; New audio commentary featuring Charles Dennis, author of There's a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of 'Arsenic and Old Lace'; Radio adaptation from 1952 starring Boris Karloff; trailer.
Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner. Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.
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.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; aspect ratio 1.37:1; monaural.
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
9781681439846 1681439840
715515277815
CC3408D The Criterion Collection
Aunts--Drama.
Arsenic--Toxicology--Drama.
Serial murders--Drama.
Families--Drama.
Murder--Drama.
Mentally ill--Drama.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
Dark comedy films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring. Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1). Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer; New audio commentary featuring Charles Dennis, author of There's a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of 'Arsenic and Old Lace'; Radio adaptation from 1952 starring Boris Karloff; trailer.
Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner. Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.
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.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; aspect ratio 1.37:1; monaural.
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
9781681439846 1681439840
715515277815
CC3408D The Criterion Collection
Aunts--Drama.
Arsenic--Toxicology--Drama.
Serial murders--Drama.
Families--Drama.
Murder--Drama.
Mentally ill--Drama.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
Dark comedy films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.