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Arsenic and old lace

DVD

2022

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Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Uniform Title:	Arsenic and old lace (Motion picture : 1944)
Title:	Arsenic and old lace / Warner Brothers Pictures Incorporated presents ; a Warner Brothers-First National picture ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; ; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for Warner Brothers ; directed by Frank Capra.
Edition:	DVD special edition.
Language Note:	In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Publisher, Date:	[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Description:	1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + folded insert
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.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 1153
Notes:	From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring. Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Full screen (Academy ratio, 1.37:1). 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. Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner. Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell. DVD; region 1, NTSC; aspect ratio 1.37:1; monaural. In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Genre:	Dark comedy films. Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Dark comedy films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Film adaptations. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Subjects:	Aunts -- Drama. Arsenic -- Toxicology -- Drama. Serial murders -- Drama. Families -- Drama. Murder -- Drama. Mentally ill -- Drama. Arsenic -- Toxicology. Aunts. Families. Mentally ill. Murder. Serial murders. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama. New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn.
Other Author:	Capra, Frank, 1897-1991 Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000 Epstein, Philip G. Grant, Cary, 1904-1986 Lane, Priscilla, 1917-1995 Massey, Raymond Carson, Jack, 1910-1963 Horton, Edward Everett Lorre, Peter Gleason, James, 1886-1959 Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957 Adair, Jean, 1873-1953 Alexander, John, 1897-1982 Mitchell, Grant, 1874-1957 Polito, Sol, 1892-1960 Mandell, Daniel Steiner, Max, 1888-1971 Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967. Arsenic and old lace. Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) First National Pictures, Inc. Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN:	9781681439846 1681439840
Other Number:	1341211871
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