Movie

Arsenic and Old Lace

★ 7.6/10 · 1,067 votes 1944 1h 58m Released

ComedyCrime

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!

Cast

Cary Grant Mortimer Brewster Priscilla Lane Elaine Harper Brewster Josephine Hull Aunt Abby Brewster Jean Adair Aunt Martha Brewster Raymond Massey Jonathan Brewster John Alexander 'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster