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Arsenic and Old Lace

Release Year
1944
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Comedy
Crime
Directed By
Not Available
Arsenic and Old Lace

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 & Crew

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

Jack Carson

Officer Patrick O'Hara

Edward Everett Horton

Mr. Witherspoon

James Gleason

Lt. Rooney

Grant Mitchell

Reverend Harper

Edward McNamara

Sergeant Brophy

John Ridgely

Officer Saunders

Crew

Sol Polito

Director of Photography

Byron Haskin

Special Effects

Joseph Kesselring

Theatre Play

Everett Alton Brown

Sound Mixer

C.A. Riggs

Sound

Bob Fender

Unit Publicist

Mickey Marigold

Still Photographer

Harold Noyes

Grip

Wesley Anderson

Additional Camera

Frank Evans

Assistant Camera

George Bau

Makeup Artist

John Wallace

Makeup Artist

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