"Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944) - Special Halloween Movie Presentation

Program Type:

Films

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

Starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane (1944).  Not rated.

Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra.  Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who ply lonely geezers with poisoned libations, one sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers brother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, one impatient new bride (Prsicilla Lane) - and only one night to  make it turn out all right.  In this circus' center ring is Grant, twisting his face into a clown's gallery of flabbergasted reactions and transforming his natural athletic grace into a rubber-legged comic ballet.  You'll die laughing.

 

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