1st Mondays Fab 40’s Films With Jon Boschen: Arsenic and Old Lace

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You ought to be in pictures: Film historian Jonathon Boschen brings “Fabulous ’40s Films” to Greenfield Garden Cinemas

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre

DIRECTOR: Frank Capra

RUN TIME: 118 min