Arsenic and Old Lace
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Frank Capra Run Time: 118 min. Release Year: 1944
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Adair, Josephine Hull, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
It’s still Spooky Season in our hearts, so we’re dusting off a few screenings of Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace!
Cary Grant stars as Mortimer Brewster, a newlywed whose trip home to visit his eccentric Brooklyn family turns into a macabre comedy of errors. His sweet, elderly aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) have a deadly hobby: poisoning lonely old men with elderberry wine and burying them in the basement. Add in a delusional brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, another who’s an unhinged criminal dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a frantic race to keep the police—and his new bride—none the wiser.
A twisted favorite of ours that’s bursting with screwball energy and classic Cary Grant charm, Arsenic and Old Lace proves that murder can be murderously funny?