Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

Directed by

Frank Capra

Starring

Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull

Runtime

1h 58m

Country

USA

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!