Arsenic & Old Lace (1962)
- Directed by
- George Schaefer
- Genre
- black comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A drama critic learns that his two elderly aunts have a secret hobby: they poison lonely old men to be nice. He must deal with this revelation while his family and a police detective create chaos.
darkly comiccampyfarcewhimsicalmacabrequick-wittedtheatricaleccentric
What happens
Arsenic & Old Lace is a 1962 television film directed by George Schaefer and starring Tony Randall, Dorothy Stickney, and Mildred Natwick. It first aired as the 3rd episode of season 11 of the NBC anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame. It is an adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's 1939 play Arsenic and Old Lace. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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