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Arsenic and old lace [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2022.

Dysfunctional families -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1153.

Alternate title:

Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (118 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; 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 ; PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns.

At head of title: Frank Capra's.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Warner Bros.-First National Picture ; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra.

Cary Grant with Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair and John Alexander.

"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."--Container.

Screwball comedy films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967. Arsenic and old lace.

Capra, Frank, 1897-1991.

Grant, Cary, 1904-1986.

Massey, Raymond.

Carson, Jack, 1910-1963.

Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995.

Horton, Edward Everett.

Gleason, James, 1886-1959.

Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957.

Adair, Jean, 1873-1953.

Alexander, John, 1897-1982.

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