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.
- DVD special edition.
, United States
- New York Criterion Collection 2022
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + folded insert
- Criterion collection ; 1153 .
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.
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 outr�e oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
9781681439846 715515277815
CC3408D The Criterion Collection
Aunts--Drama.
Arsenic--Toxicology--Drama.
Serial murders
Families
Murder
Mentally ill--Drama.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
PN1997 / .A77 2022
Ars 35
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.
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 outr�e oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
9781681439846 715515277815
CC3408D The Criterion Collection
Aunts--Drama.
Arsenic--Toxicology--Drama.
Serial murders
Families
Murder
Mentally ill--Drama.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
PN1997 / .A77 2022
Ars 35