| Description |
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + folded insert |
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optical rdarm |
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mono rdacpc |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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region A rdare |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 1153.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray; region A, aspect ratio 1.37:1, monaural; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Cast |
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner. |
| Note |
From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. |
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Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1). |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises. |
| Subject |
Aunts -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Arsenic -- Toxicology -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Serial murders -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Families -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Murder -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Mentally ill -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Brooklyn (New York, NY) -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Dark comedy films.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Film adaptations.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991, film director.
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Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000, screenwriter.
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Epstein, Philip G., screenwriter.
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Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.
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Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995, actor.
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Massey, Raymond, actor.
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Carson, Jack, 1910-1963, actor.
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Horton, Edward Everett, actor.
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Lorre, Peter, actor.
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Gleason, James, 1886-1959, actor.
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Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957, actor.
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Adair, Jean, 1873-1953, actor.
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Alexander, John, 1897-1982, actor.
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Mitchell, Grant, 1874-1957, actor.
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Polito, Sol, 1892-1960, director of photography.
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Mandell, Daniel, editor of moving image work.
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Steiner, Max, 1888-1971, composer (expression)
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967.
Arsenic and old lace.
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Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), presenter, production company.
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First National Pictures, Inc., production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515277716 |
| Music No. |
CC3407BD The Criterion Collection |
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