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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
· Movie
· 118 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #478
- IMDb #467
- Google retired #530
- Rotten Tomatoes #740
- Letterboxd #660
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1501
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #444
- Criticker #355
- Kinopoisk #652
- AlloCiné #938
- Trakt #697
Every rating
67–94
out of 100
A drama critic discovers on his wedding day that his two sweet, charitable aunts have a horrifying hobby: poisoning lonely old men and burying them in their cellar. His manic brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt exacerbates the situation, and his homicidal other brother arrives, putting a damper on the nuptials.
Details
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writers
- Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
- Based on
- Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 1 September 1944
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, German
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.1M
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Awards
4 wins & 1 nomination total
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