Plump Flicktion or: How I Learned to Watch Great Films and Love The World

Arsenic and Old Lace

Directed by Frank Capra. USA, 1944.

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

Genre: comedy, thriller.
Produced by: Frank Capra, Jack L. Warner.
Writing credits: Joseph Kesselring, Julius J. Epstein.
Main cast: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, John Alexander, Jack Carson.

Quotes

“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”

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