Arsenic and old lace / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + folded insert
From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring. Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1). 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; booklet containing an essay by critic David Cairns. 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 outr�e oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
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