Arsenic and Old Lace 1944

Directed by	Frank Capra
Screenplay by	Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein
Based on	Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Produced by	Frank Capra Jack L. Warner
Starring	Cary Grant Raymond Massey Jack Carson Priscilla Lane Peter Lorre Edward Everett Horton James Gleason Josephine Hull Jean Adair John Alexander
Cinematography	Sol Polito
Edited by	Daniel Mandell
Music by	Max Steiner
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	1 September 1944 (New York City) 23 September 1944 (United States)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.2 million
Box office	$4.8 million
(This information is from wikipedia.org.)

Arsenic and Old Lace

• Black comedy

Black comedy

It’s supposed to be funny in a morbid way that Mortimer Brewster’s sweet aunts have been poisoning lonely old bachelors, that his brother Teddy thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt and is burying the bodies in the basement, that his brother Jonathan, a serial killer, had plastic surgery, but it was botched, so he now resembles Frankenstein’s monster, that his surgeon is played by Peter Lorre and is named Hermon Einstein, and that Mortimer in the end finds that he isn’t related to them after all.