Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Based on the play by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Frank Capra.
Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla ...Based on the play by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Frank Capra.
Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, John Alexander, Jack Carson, James Gleason, Edward Everett Horton, Hank Mann, Leo White.

Cary Grant stars as well-known drama critic Mortimer Brewster, a notorious bachelor who tries to inconspicuously marry childhood next-door neighbor Elaine (Priscilla Lane). On their way to a Niagara Falls honeymoon, they drive to Brooklyn, so Elaine can tell her disapproving pastor father about the marriage, and Mortimer can tell his aunts Abby (Josephine Hull) and Martha (Jean Adair).
Unfortunately his happy news is undercut with a shocking discovery: his dear, sweet aunts- who raised him as child- have murdered 13 men and buried them in the basement with the help of his brother (John Alexander), who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt. It is quite a revelation, especially when the women seem so gleeful about it. They truly believe they're bringing peace to lonely old men by poisoning them. Mortimer is worried that they'll be found out, so he goes about getting the papers ready to have Teddy committed, hoping to blame him for the murders in case anything ever comes to light.

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