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Arsenic and old lace, directed by Frank Capra

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Arsenic and old lace, directed by Frank Capra
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eng
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Arsenic and old lace
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
1341211871
Responsibility statement
directed by Frank Capra
Runtime
118
Series statement
Criterion collection, 1153
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 outreĢ oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises
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adult
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