Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
"She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!"
Critics Score
🎬 86%
(RT: 86%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Priscilla Lane as Elaine Harper Brewster
Josephine Hull as Aunt Abby Brewster
Jean Adair as Aunt Martha Brewster
John Alexander as 'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Is Arsenic and Old Lace good?
Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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! Wikipedia ↗
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What Reddit Thinks
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Top comment: "*Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.* Mortimer Brewster"
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