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Arsenic and old lace (Motion picture)

In this comedy classic, Aunts Abby and Martha have the most disconcerting habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. Along with their nephew Mortimer they are unaware of two murderers working nearby.

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  • "Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace"
  • "Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace"@en
  • "Spring play, 1986"@en
  • "Arsenic and old lace"
  • "Arsenic and old lace"@en
  • "Arsenic et vieilles dentelles, français"
  • "רעל ותחרה"
  • "Arsenico e vecchi merletti, italien"
  • "Arsenic et vieilles dentelles"
  • "Frank Capra's Arsenic & old lace"@en
  • "Arsenico e vecchi merletti"@it
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  • "Arsenic & old lace"@en
  • "Cary Grant in Frank Capra's Arsenic & old lace"@en

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  • "In this comedy classic, Aunts Abby and Martha have the most disconcerting habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. Along with their nephew Mortimer they are unaware of two murderers working nearby."@en
  • ""Two dear, well-meaning old ladies invite lonely old men to their Brooklyn home, poison them with elderberry wine, and have their mad brother, who believes the corpses are yellow fever victims, bury them in the cellar. A homicidal nephew then turns up with bodies of his own. A ... black farce ..."--Halliwell's Film Guide."
  • "This tells of a newlywed dramatic critic in the big city who lives with two aunts and a uncle. Uncle Teddy is bonkers and thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt. The aunts think Teddy is the only one that's gone mad but, in fact, they have lost the plot themeselves."@en
  • "Arsenic and old lace (Side A, 118 min.): A drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family."@en
  • "Comedy with an engaging mixture of gruesomeness and gags. Drama critic discovers his two elderly aunts have been poisoning their gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "Fiction. Comédie. Deux délicieuses et généreuses vieilles dames, un peu toquées, empoisonnent, par bonté d'âme de vieux messieurs seuls et tristes afin de leur épargner une fin de vie misérable. Un neveu fou les aide et enterre les corps dans la cave. Mortimer, un autre neveu, découvre les activités des tantes mais se heurte à leur totale inconscience. L'arrivée d'un troisième neveu, Jonathan, un dangereux criminel flanqué de son complice, le Dr. Einstein, provoque un épouvantable chassé-croisé de cadavres."
  • "A classic film adaptation of the Broadway comedy about two gentle, but highly lethal, sisters who poison lonely old men as an act of charity. The plot thickens as their nephew discovers their secret and tries to figure a way out of his increasingly more tangled family dilemma."@en
  • "A night at the opera (Side B, 91 min.): A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal-- to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan."@en
  • "A drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family."
  • "Based on Joseph Kesselring's hit Broadway play, this classic comedy stars Cary Grant as a mild-mannered drama critic who discovers his two kindly and lovable aunts have been poisoning people with elderberry wine. Meanwhile, two murderers (Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre) move into the same house with the idea of adding a few corpses of their own."@en
  • "A frenzy of mad-cap mayhem best describes this riotous screen adaptation of the Broadway smash hit--perhaps the most renowned black farce of all time. Cary Grant delivers "a grand performance...the best comedy effort of his career" (Hollywood Reporter) in this outlandish tale of two gentle but highly lethal sisters who poison lonely old men as a charity act--and then bury them with proper ceremony in the cellar of their Brooklyn boarding house."
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Auts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "Summary: A drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family."@en
  • "An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."
  • "Un famoso crítico teatral, Mortimer Brewster, se ha casado en secreto con la bella Elaine. Los dos acuden a visitar a las encantadoras tias de Mortimer, Abby y Martha, allí descubrirá con horror que las ancianas se dedican a envenenar a viejecitos abandonados a los que entierran en el sótano."
  • "A young man is shocked when he learns his aunts like to serve men elderberry wine spiked with arsenic, and then bury their bodies in the cellar."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. Live presentation by Asbury College Drama Troup, May 16, 1986."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • ""Mortimer Brewster discovers his elderly aunts' secret via a body in the window seat. But before he can get his bizarre brother Teddy committed for the act, long-lost brother Jonathan shows up with a body of his own.""@en
  • "Mortimer Bruster and Elaine Harper get married at city hall. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar and even holding thoughtful funeral ceremonies for them. He tries to get his uncle, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, committed to an institution. Trouble comes up when his maniacal long-lost brother shows up after a world tour of various murders with a phoney doctor. Bruster ultimately learns that he isn't related to the unbalanced aunts and the wacky brother."
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."
  • "Outlandish tale about two sweet old ladies who cure their elderly gentleman callers of their loneliness by poisoning them and then giving them Christian burials in their basement."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentleman callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in their cellar."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in their cellar."
  • "Venuto a presentare la fidanzata, Mortimer Brewster scopre che le sue due simpatiche zie hanno ucciso una dozzina di vecchietti per liberarli dall'infelicità e dalla solitudine seppellendo poi i cadaveri in cantina con l'aiuto di un nipote che si crede il presidente Teddy Roosvelt. (Mereghetti)."@it
  • "An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callersand burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "An easy-going drama critic is shocked to discover that his elderly aunts, the seemingly gentle-natured Abby and Martha, have a habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar of their old Brooklyn mansion."@en
  • "A frenzy of mad-cap mayhem best describes this adaption of the Broadway smash hit."
  • "Two sweet, elderly ladies entertain gentlemen callers by serving them elderberry wine laced with arsenic."@en
  • "An easy going drama critic (Grant) discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "Two elderly sisters are poisoning lonely old men and having them buried in the basement. This becomes a cause for consternation & frenzied activity when their nephew and others discover what has been happening."
  • "Feature film from the USA. Comedy. Just married, Mortimer Brewster strives to conceal his family's lunacy from his new wife. But with murder and mayhem caused by aunts and brothers, it's quite a task."
  • "An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar."@en
  • "La jaquette indique : "Deux charmantes vieilles dames aux allures respectables et leurs trois neveux. La vie de la famille Brewster pourrait être sans histoires. Seulement voilà... Il faut savoir que Jonathan Brewster est un dangereux criminel flanqué d'un mystérieux docteur. Il faut aussi savoir que Teddy Brewster se prend pour le président Roosevelt. Quant à Mortimer Brewster, accompagné de sa charmante fiancée, il est heureusement parfaitement équilibré. Mais il va devoir faire appel à tout son sang-froid quand il découvre que ses "chères tantes" sont en fait deux empoisonneuses qui se sont données pour mission de soulager les vieux messieurs des affres d'une vieillesse pénible...""
  • "Two dear, well-meaning old ladies invite lonely old men to their Brookly home, poison them with elderberry wine and have their mad brother, who believes the corpses are yellow fever victims, bury them in the cellar. A homicidal nephew then turns up with bodies of his own. Starring Gary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre."@en
  • "This black farce combines the bizarre and the mundane. Cary Grant stars as a mild-mannered drama critic who learns that his two kindly aunts have been inviting elderly gentlemen to their Brooklyn home and poisoning them with elderberry wine. Two murderers move into the same house with the idea of adding a few corpses of their own. (Does not circulate)."
  • "Deux délicieuses et généreuses vieilles dames, un peu toquées, empoisonnent, par bonté d'âme, de vieux messieurs seuls et tristes afin de leur épargner une fin de vie misérable. Un neveu fou les enterre à la cave. Mortimer, un autre neveu, découvre les activités des tantes mais se heurte à leur totale inconscience. L'arrivée d'un troisième neveu, Jonathan, un dangereux criminel flanqué de son complice, le Dr. Einstein, provoque un épouvantable chassé-croisé de cadavres. Finalement, les vieilles dames et le neveu fou sont envoyés à l'asile, Jonathan est arrêté et Mortimer peut enfin vivre son mariage avec la fille d'un pasteur."
  • "On the eve of his wedding, a drama critic discovers his family are mad! His aunts have hidden 13 bodies in the cellar, and the police are chasing his brother for murder..."
  • "On the eve of his wedding, a drama critic discovers his family are mad! His aunts have hidden 13 bodies in the cellar, and the police are chasing his brother for murder..."@en
  • "The year is 1941. The location is a small house next to a cemetery in Brooklyn. In this house live two kind, thoughtful, sweet old ladies, Martha and Abby Brewster who have developed a very bad habit. It appears that they murder lonely old men who have some sort of religious affiliation and they consider doing it a charity. They then leave it to their bugle blowing nephew Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt) to take them to the Panama Canal (the cellar) and bury them. In this instance, the "poor fellow" suffers from yellow fever found in the window seat. It is another of their nephews Mortimer Brewster, a dramatic critic, who returns home only to find the man in the seat by mistake. Another nephew, Jonathon, returns to the home after years of fleeing the authorities due to his "unofficial practice" of killing people and using their faces to change his. However the results cause him to look like Boris Karloff (this angers him upon the mention of his similarity to the actor) due to the poor craftsmanship of his German accented, alcoholic sidekick Dr. Einstein. As the story continues, we see each character trying to find resolve in their suddenly been flipped upside-down lives. Mortimer tries to keep his aunts safe and prevent them from continuing their nasty habit while trying to stay sane with the woman he loves (Elaine Harper), the aunts try to continue their "charities", and Jonathon tries to make a wealthy practice that is stationed inside the home."@en

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