Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Directed by Frank Capra · 118 min · Comedy, Crime
49.9 TOPICAL score · #1,931 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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!
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, directed by Frank Capra) has a TOPICAL score of 49.9 - ranked 1,931 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on audience and critics, and lowest on awards. Critics: 86% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.5/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 7.6/10 (1,085 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 36 languages.
Why this score
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- Critics86% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.5/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 7.6/10 (1,085 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 36 languages
- Still read40,425 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Cary Grant (actor #21), Priscilla Lane (actor #1,828), Josephine Hull, Jean Adair
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