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data-title="Arsenig a Hen Las" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsen_und_Spitzenh%C3%A4ubchen" title="Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AC_%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B1_(%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1)" title="Αρσενικό και παλιά δαντέλα (ταινία) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Αρσενικό και παλιά δαντέλα (ταινία)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" 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(映画) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="毒薬と老嬢 (映画)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arszenik_i_stare_koronki_(film_1944)" title="Arszenik i stare koronki (film 1944) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Arszenik i stare koronki (film 1944)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace" title="Arsenic and Old Lace – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Arsenic and Old Lace" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Arsenic_And_Old_Lace_Poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="220" data-file-height="331" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Capra" title="Frank Capra">Frank Capra</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein" title="Julius J. Epstein">Julius J. Epstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_G._Epstein" title="Philip G. Epstein">Philip G. Epstein</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(play)" title="Arsenic and Old Lace (play)">Arsenic and Old Lace</a></i><br />by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kesselring" title="Joseph Kesselring">Joseph Kesselring</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Frank Capra</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_L._Warner" title="Jack L. Warner">Jack L. Warner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Massey" title="Raymond Massey">Raymond Massey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Carson" title="Jack Carson">Jack Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscilla_Lane" title="Priscilla Lane">Priscilla Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Lorre" title="Peter Lorre">Peter Lorre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Everett_Horton" title="Edward Everett Horton">Edward Everett Horton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Gleason" title="James Gleason">James Gleason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josephine_Hull" title="Josephine Hull">Josephine Hull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Adair" title="Jean Adair">Jean Adair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alexander_(actor)" title="John Alexander (actor)">John Alexander</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sol_Polito" title="Sol Polito">Sol Polito</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Mandell" title="Daniel Mandell">Daniel Mandell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Max_Steiner" title="Max Steiner">Max Steiner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release dates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>September 1, 1944<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1944-09-01</span>)</span> (New York City)<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>September 23, 1944<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1944-09-23</span>)</span> (United States)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">118 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$1.2 million<sup id="cite_ref-warners_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warners-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$4.8 million<sup id="cite_ref-warners_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warners-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Arsenic and Old Lace</b></i> is a 1944 American <a href="/wiki/Screwball_comedy" title="Screwball comedy">screwball</a> <a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">black comedy</a> <a href="/wiki/Crime_film" title="Crime film">crime film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Capra" title="Frank Capra">Frank Capra</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a>. The screenplay by <a href="/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein" title="Julius J. Epstein">Julius J. Epstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philip_G._Epstein" title="Philip G. Epstein">Philip G. Epstein</a> is based on <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kesselring" title="Joseph Kesselring">Joseph Kesselring</a>'s 1941 <a href="/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(play)" title="Arsenic and Old Lace (play)">play of the same name</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGilligan1986170_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGilligan1986170-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The contract with the play's producers stipulated that the film would not be released until the <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> run ended. The original planned release date was September 30, 1942. The play was hugely successful, running for three and a half years, so the film was not released until 1944. </p><p>The lead role of Mortimer Brewster was originally intended for <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a>, but he could not be released from his contract with <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>. Capra had also approached <a href="/wiki/Jack_Benny" title="Jack Benny">Jack Benny</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Travis_(actor)" title="Richard Travis (actor)">Richard Travis</a> before learning that Grant would accept the role. On the Broadway stage, <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a> played Jonathan Brewster, who is said to "look like Boris Karloff". According to <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">Turner Classic Movies</a>, Karloff, who gave permission for the use of his name in the film, remained in the play to appease the producers, who were afraid of what stripping the play of all its primary cast would do to ticket sales.<sup id="cite_ref-tcm-notes_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tcm-notes-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Massey" title="Raymond Massey">Raymond Massey</a> took Karloff's place on screen.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film's supporting cast also features <a href="/wiki/Jack_Carson" title="Jack Carson">Jack Carson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Priscilla_Lane" title="Priscilla Lane">Priscilla Lane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Lorre" title="Peter Lorre">Peter Lorre</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Everett_Horton" title="Edward Everett Horton">Edward Everett Horton</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Josephine_Hull" title="Josephine Hull">Josephine Hull</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Adair" title="Jean Adair">Jean Adair</a> portray the Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, respectively. Hull and Adair, as well as <a href="/wiki/John_Alexander_(actor)" title="John Alexander (actor)">John Alexander</a> (who played Teddy Brewster), reprised their roles from the 1941 stage production.<sup id="cite_ref-tcm-notes_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tcm-notes-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hull and Adair both received an eight-week leave of absence from the stage production, which was still running, but Karloff did not, as he was an investor in the stage production and its main draw. The entire film was shot within those eight weeks. The film cost just over $1.2 million of a $2 million budget to produce.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cost of the filming rights was $175,000.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Brewster family of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York City, is descended from <i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i> settlers. Several illustrious forebears' portraits line the walls of the ancestral home. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27,_1943.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27%2C_1943.jpg/220px-Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27%2C_1943.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27%2C_1943.jpg/330px-Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27%2C_1943.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27%2C_1943.jpg/440px-Priscilla_Lane_and_Cary_Grant_in_%27Arsenic_and_Old_Lace%27%2C_1943.jpg 2x" data-file-width="699" data-file-height="578" /></a><figcaption>Elaine (Priscilla Lane) and Mortimer (Cary Grant) waiting for a marriage license</figcaption></figure> <p>Mortimer Brewster, a theater critic and author who has repeatedly denounced marriage as "an old-fashioned superstition", falls in love with Elaine Harper, his neighbor and a minister's daughter. On <a href="/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a> day, Mortimer and Elaine get married. Elaine goes to her father's house to share the news of her marriage with him and pack for the honeymoon, while Mortimer visits his aunts, Abby and Martha, who raised him in the old family home. Mortimer's disturbed brother, Teddy, who believes he is <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, resides with them. Each time Teddy goes upstairs, he yells "Charge!" and runs up the stairs, imitating Roosevelt's famous 1898 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_Hill" title="Battle of San Juan Hill">charge up San Juan Hill</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg/220px-Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg/330px-Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg/440px-Jean_Adair_Josephine_Hull_Cary_Grant_Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1944.jpg 2x" data-file-width="803" data-file-height="703" /></a><figcaption>Jean Adair, Josephine Hull, and Cary Grant in <i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Searching for the notes for his next book, Mortimer finds a corpse hidden in the <a href="/wiki/Window_seat_(furniture)" title="Window seat (furniture)">window seat</a>. He assumes in horror that Teddy's delusions have led him to murder. Abby and Martha cheerfully confess to murdering Mr. Hoskins and explain that they minister to lonely old bachelors by ending their "suffering". They post a "Room for Rent" sign to attract a victim, then serve a glass of <a href="/wiki/Elderberry_wine" class="mw-redirect" title="Elderberry wine">elderberry wine</a> spiked with <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strychnine" title="Strychnine">strychnine</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cyanide" title="Cyanide">cyanide</a> while getting acquainted with them. In addition to Mr. Hoskins, the aunts have murdered eleven other men; the bodies are buried in the cellar by Teddy, who believes they are <a href="/wiki/Yellow_fever" title="Yellow fever">yellow fever</a> victims who perished in the building of the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a>. </p><p>While Mortimer digests this information, his brother Jonathan arrives with his alcoholic accomplice, <a href="/wiki/Plastic_surgeon" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastic surgeon">plastic surgeon</a> Dr. Herman Einstein. Jonathan is a serial murderer trying to escape from the police and dispose of his latest victim, Mr. Spenalzo. Jonathan's face, altered by Einstein while drunk, resembles <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_monster" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankenstein monster">Frankenstein monster</a> makeup.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jonathan learns his aunts' secret and proposes to bury his victim in the cellar. Abby and Martha object vehemently because their victims were "nice" gentlemen while Jonathan's victim is a stranger and a "foreigner". Jonathan also declares his intention to kill Mortimer. </p><p>Elaine is impatient to leave on their honeymoon to Niagara Falls but is concerned about Mortimer's increasingly odd behavior as he frantically attempts to control the situation. He unsuccessfully tries to alert the bumbling police to Jonathan's presence. To draw attention away from his aunts and deprive them of their willing but uncomprehending accomplice, Mortimer tries to file paperwork to have Teddy legally committed to a mental asylum. Worrying that the genetic predisposition for mental illness resides within him, Mortimer explains to Elaine that he cannot remain married to her. </p><p>Eventually, Jonathan is arrested, Einstein flees after signing Teddy's commitment papers, Teddy is safely consigned to an institution, and his aunts insist on joining him. Upon hearing that Mortimer signed the commitment papers as next of kin, Abby and Martha are concerned they may be null and void; they inform Mortimer that he is not a Brewster after all: his mother was the family cook and his father was a chef on a steamship. Relieved, he kisses Elaine and whisks her off to their honeymoon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;min-width: min(25em, 100%);"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a> as Mortimer Brewster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscilla_Lane" title="Priscilla Lane">Priscilla Lane</a> as Elaine Brewster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Massey" title="Raymond Massey">Raymond Massey</a> as Jonathan Brewster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Carson" title="Jack Carson">Jack Carson</a> as Officer Patrick O'Hara</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Everett_Horton" title="Edward Everett Horton">Edward Everett Horton</a> as Mr. Witherspoon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Lorre" title="Peter Lorre">Peter Lorre</a> as Dr. Herman Einstein</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Gleason" title="James Gleason">James Gleason</a> as Police Lt. Rooney</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josephine_Hull" title="Josephine Hull">Josephine Hull</a> as Abby Brewster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Adair" title="Jean Adair">Jean Adair</a> as Martha Brewster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alexander_(actor)" title="John Alexander (actor)">John Alexander</a> as "Teddy Roosevelt" Brewster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Mitchell_(actor)" title="Grant Mitchell (actor)">Grant Mitchell</a> as Reverend Harper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_McNamara" title="Edward McNamara">Edward McNamara</a> as Police Sgt. Brophy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garry_Owen_(actor)" title="Garry Owen (actor)">Garry Owen</a> as taxi cab driver</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ridgely" title="John Ridgely">John Ridgely</a> as Officer Sanders</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Glaser" title="Vaughan Glaser">Vaughan Glaser</a> as Judge Cullman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_Clute" title="Chester Clute">Chester Clute</a> as Dr. Gilchrist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lane_(actor,_born_1905)" title="Charles Lane (actor, born 1905)">Charles Lane</a> as reporter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_McWade" title="Edward McWade">Edward McWade</a> as Mr. Gibbs, the old man</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Mann" title="Hank Mann">Hank Mann</a> as photographer at marriage license office (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Charters" title="Spencer Charters">Spencer Charters</a> as marriage license clerk (uncredited)</li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The play <i><a href="/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(play)" title="Arsenic and Old Lace (play)">Arsenic and Old Lace</a></i> was written by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kesselring" title="Joseph Kesselring">Joseph Kesselring</a>, son of German immigrants and a former professor at <a href="/wiki/Bethel_College_(Kansas)" title="Bethel College (Kansas)">Bethel College</a>, a pacifist <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonite</a> college. It was written in the <a href="/wiki/Anti-war_movement" title="Anti-war movement">anti-war</a> atmosphere of the late 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Capra scholar Matthew C. Gunter argues that the deep theme of both the play and film is the United States' difficulty in coming to grips with both the positive and negative consequences of the liberty it professes to uphold, and which the Brewsters demand. Although their house is the nicest in the street, there are 12 bodies in the basement. That inconsistency is a metaphor for the country's struggle to reconcile the violence of much of its past with the pervasive myths about its role as a beacon of freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGunter2012[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXLD--w2GHrkCpgPA49_49–51]_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGunter2012[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXLD--w2GHrkCpgPA49_49–51]-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The set used for the Brewster home in <i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i> was reused in the 1942 film <i><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Slept_Here" title="George Washington Slept Here">George Washington Slept Here</a></i>. To ensure it looked the part of a dilapidated farmhouse in the latter film, <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> crews knocked out bannisters, rafters and floors on the set.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box_office">Box office</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Box office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm/220px--Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="162" data-durationhint="165" data-mwtitle="Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_(1944).webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_(1944).webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="480" data-height="354" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="480" data-height="354" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="196" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_trailer_%281944%29.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="326" data-height="240" /></video></span><figcaption>Trailer (1944)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grant_Lane_Still.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Grant_Lane_Still.jpg/220px-Grant_Lane_Still.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Grant_Lane_Still.jpg/330px-Grant_Lane_Still.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Grant_Lane_Still.jpg 2x" data-file-width="394" data-file-height="489" /></a><figcaption>Publicity photo of Grant and Lane</figcaption></figure> <p>According to Warner Bros. records, the film grossed $2,836,000 domestically and $1,948,000 internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-warners_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warners-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The contemporary critical reviews were uniformly positive. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> critic summed up the majority view, "As a whole, <i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i>, the Warner picture which came to the Strand yesterday, is good macabre fun."<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i> declared, "Capra's production, not elaborate, captures the color and spirit of the play, while the able writing team of Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein has turned in a very workable, tightly-compressed script. Capra's own intelligent direction rounds out."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Harrison%27s_Reports" title="Harrison's Reports">Harrison's Reports</a></i> wrote: "An hilarious entertainment, it should turn out to be one of the year's top box-office attractions."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Lardner_(sportswriter)" title="John Lardner (sportswriter)">John Lardner</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> called the film "practically as funny in picture form as it did on the stage, and that is very funny indeed."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Assessing the film in 1968, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Higham_(biographer)" title="Charles Higham (biographer)">Charles Higham</a> and Joel Greenberg state in <i>Hollywood in the Forties</i> that "Frank Capra provided a rather overstated and strained version of <i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHighamGreenberg1968161_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHighamGreenberg1968161-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the <a href="/wiki/Review_aggregator" title="Review aggregator">review aggregator</a> website <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film is recognized by <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Laughs" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs">AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs</a> (<abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> 30) in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Radio_adaptations">Radio adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Radio adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i> was adapted as a half-hour radio play for the November 25, 1946, broadcast of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Screen_Guild_Theater" title="The Screen Guild Theater">The Screen Guild Theater</a></i> with Boris Karloff and <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Albert" title="Eddie Albert">Eddie Albert</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A one-hour adaptation was broadcast on January 25, 1948, on <i><a href="/wiki/Ford_Theatre" title="Ford Theatre">Ford Theatre</a></i>, with Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and John Alexander reprising their roles.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1944" title="List of American films of 1944">List of American films of 1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_set_around_Halloween" title="List of films set around Halloween">List of films set around Halloween</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Archer-Gilligan" title="Amy Archer-Gilligan">Amy Archer-Gilligan</a> – a nursing home owner accused of murdering elderly men in her care 1910–1917</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Widow_murders" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Widow murders">Black Widow murders</a> – a real murder case whose events were compared to the fictional murders in the film</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/This_Is_Your_Life_(American_franchise)" title="This Is Your Life (American franchise)">This Is Your Life</a></i>, Karloff was actually an investor and a producer of the stage play who received royalties whenever it was performed.<sup id="cite_ref-Nixon_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nixon-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/Self-reference" title="Self-reference">self-referential</a> joke highlights Karloff's portrayal of the character in the Broadway production.<sup id="cite_ref-Nixon_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nixon-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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href="https://www.nytimes.com/1944/09/02/archives/arsenic-and-old-lace-with-cary-grant-in-premiere-at-strand-youth.html">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Arsenic and Old Lace,' With Cary Grant, in Premiere at Strand – 'Youth Runs Wild' Is New Palace Theatre Feature"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. September 2, 1944. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190408070643/https://www.nytimes.com/1944/09/02/archives/arsenic-and-old-lace-with-cary-grant-in-premiere-at-strand-youth.html">Archived</a> from the original on April 8, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 25 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGilligan1986170-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGilligan1986170_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcGilligan1986">McGilligan 1986</a>, p. 170.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tcm-notes-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tcm-notes_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tcm-notes_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160118000219/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/577/arsenic-and-old-lace/notes.html">"Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) – Notes"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">Turner Classic Movies</a>. 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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fultah_Fisher%27s_Boarding_House" title="Fultah Fisher's Boarding House">Fultah Fisher's Boarding House</a></i> (1922)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Strong_Man" title="The Strong Man">The Strong Man</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Long_Pants" title="Long Pants">Long Pants</a></i> (1927)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/For_the_Love_of_Mike_(1927_film)" title="For the Love of Mike (1927 film)">For the Love of Mike</a></i> (1927)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/That_Certain_Thing_(film)" title="That Certain Thing (film)">That Certain Thing</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_This_Is_Love%3F_(film)" title="So This Is Love? (film)">So This Is Love?</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Matinee_Idol" title="The Matinee Idol">The Matinee Idol</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Way_of_the_Strong_(1928_film)" title="The Way of the Strong (1928 film)">The Way of the Strong</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Say_It_with_Sables" title="Say It with Sables">Say It with Sables</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Press" title="The Power of the Press">The Power of the Press</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Submarine_(1928_film)" title="Submarine (1928 film)">Submarine</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Younger_Generation" title="The Younger Generation">The Younger Generation</a></i> (1929)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Donovan_Affair" title="The Donovan Affair">The Donovan Affair</a></i> (1929)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flight_(1929_film)" title="Flight (1929 film)">Flight</a></i> (1929)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ladies_of_Leisure" title="Ladies 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the Union (film)">State of the Union</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Riding_High_(1950_film)" title="Riding High (1950 film)">Riding High</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Groom_(1951_film)" title="Here Comes the Groom (1951 film)">Here Comes the Groom</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Hole_in_the_Head" title="A Hole in the Head">A Hole in the Head</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pocketful_of_Miracles" title="Pocketful of Miracles">Pocketful of Miracles</a></i> (1961)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Why_We_Fight" title="Why We Fight">Why We Fight</a></i> series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Prelude_to_War" title="Prelude to War">Prelude to War</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nazis_Strike" title="The Nazis Strike">The Nazis 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