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Episode 132 – Arsenic and Old Lace
For this episode, we sort of followed Boris Karloff to a classic screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra. Arsenic and Old Lace was based on a stage play that featured Boris Karloff. He’s not in the movie, though. We’ll explain why. Alex Wick joins us to see if this 1941 comedy is still funny to a 19-year-old. For the most part, it still is!
Up next, we are going to be watching Bride of Frankenstein!
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Rating: 7.9/10 (77,355 votes)
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 118 min
Rated: Approved
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 21 Sep 1944
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 118 min
Rated: Approved
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 21 Sep 1944
Plot: Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
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By Tim Wick and Melissa Kaercher
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For this episode, we sort of followed Boris Karloff to a classic screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra. Arsenic and Old Lace was based on a stage play that featured Boris Karloff. He’s not in the movie, though. We’ll explain why. Alex Wick joins us to see if this 1941 comedy is still funny to a 19-year-old. For the most part, it still is!
Up next, we are going to be watching Bride of Frankenstein!
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Rating: 7.9/10 (77,355 votes)
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 118 min
Rated: Approved
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 21 Sep 1944
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 118 min
Rated: Approved
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 21 Sep 1944
Plot: Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
The post Episode 132 – Arsenic and Old Lace appeared first on A Reel Education.