Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Simply A Masterpiece
As Good As It Gets
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
There is a full sitcom environment when watching this movie, which makes the movie more funny and interesting. I like old movies, but I never thought I'd like it that much. It's a movie that makes me laugh and laugh.
Arsenic and old lace is one of my all time favorite movies. I saw the movie when I was a kid one halloween and just fell in love. That was my first time seeing a Cary Grant film and he quickly became one of my favorite actors for old movies. My aunt did the play when she was in college so I was always familiar with the story. But the movie brought it more to life to me.Cary Grant was hilarious as usual and probably played the best performance I have seen him do. His facial expressions and the way he acted because he was so perplexed to learn that his aunts were murders was hilarious. But I think my favorite character in the movie might be the man who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt, I used to laugh so hard at the scenes of him running up the stairs every time yelling, "Charge." The whole movie was just wonderfully done and shot very smoothly. And the fact that its a comedy/ thriller that is usually on t.v. every Halloween makes it all the better to me.This movie had everything you could possibly in a comedy, great and funny characters, a Thriller, and crime film, a bit of a funny love story. I would definitely recommend this movie to people who love a good comedy/ thriller. There are no other movies like this film and you do not wanna miss an amazing performance by Cary Grant.
Amazing...amazing...amazing movie. Terrific story-telling, each dialogue delivered to perfection, superb acting, laced with arsenic-humor. I have never seen any better-crafted humor film. Capra at his frenetic best. And almost everything happens inside a sitting-room. Yet the pace never slackens; there is not a single dull moment. Even if it is a theatrical adaptation of a very successful play, Capra nails it perfectly. I have seen it how many times now...don't remember...but must have crossed twenty times at least!! I would like to watch it at least once every year till I die...it is that good!
This is definitely the most off the wall and bizarre film that I have ever seen involving Cary Grant and very against type for it's era..Grant was great as usual in this very different setting.The film,I believe helped set the stage for the dark comedies to come in the modern era.I love how the two elderly spinsters are totally oblivious to the fact that they are doing wrong and Grant's discovery and reaction to this.Each character is colorful in his or her own way and lends much to the story.Most who are absorbed in modern film without much experience in watching older era films might take offense in regards to mental illness being used for laughs here,but it was a different time and that must be taken into consideration.Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre do a great job of lending a horror film touch in the middle of the laughs..I like it!