Arsenic and Old Lace premiered at NYC's Strand theater 79 years ago, on Sept 1, 1944... the original NY Times review said it offered "a large number of laughs and some genuine melodramatic thrills along with some cut-rate hokum" and was "a fair-to-middling reward" (wonder what they's say now) #otd #hindsight http://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/arsenic-and-old-lace-1944/ | Classic Movie Hub

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 🎥 Modern Trailer Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American black comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein is based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 play of the same name. The contract with the play's producers stipulated that the film would not be released until the Broadway run ended. The original planned release date was September 30, 1942. The play was hugely successful, running for three and a h

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 In a Colorized Version Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat. With his eccentric aunts (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), disturbed uncle (John Alexander), and homicidal brother (Raymond Massey), he starts to realize that his