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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3408D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1153.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2022]Edition: DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681439846
  • 1681439840
Uniform titles:
  • Arsenic and old lace (Motion picture : 1944)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967. Arsenic and old lace
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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).

Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.

Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.

From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1).

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.

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.

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