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Arsenic and old lace
Uniform Title
Arsenic and old lace (Motion picture : 1944)
Title
Arsenic and old lace / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra.
ISBN
9781681439839
1681439832
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
© 1944
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + folded insert.
Notes
From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.
Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1).
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer; New audio commentary featuring Charles Dennis, author of There's a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of 'Arsenic and Old Lace'; Radio adaptation from 1952 starring Boris Karloff; trailer; booklet containing an essay by critic David Cairns.
Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Summary
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2022
Series
Criterion collection ; 1153
Credits
Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.
Cast
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.
System details note
Blu-ray; region A, aspect ratio 1.37:1, monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Videorecording number
CC3407BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Dark comedy films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), presenter, production company.
First National Pictures, Inc., production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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