Session #399 - Arsenic and Old Lace
Date & Time
Wed Oct 23 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:15 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn) | Ashburn, VA
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Trailer:Tickets: https://drafthouse.com/northern-virginia/event/film-club-arsenic-and-old-lace
YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING AT CARY GRANT IN FRANK CAPRA'S MERRY, MACABRE FARCE
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 (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who both starred in the Broadway production) greet him with love, sweetness... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar.
A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff (Raymond Massey), and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
