Arsenic and old laces

Arsenic and old laces ( Arsenic and Old Laces in the original version) is a film of Frank Capra. It is adapted of a Play in three acts of Joseph Kesselring. (see Arsenic and old laces )

This American Film was thus carried out by Frank Capra and left on the screens in 1944.

Synopsis

Mortimer Brewster comes to announce with his/her two aunts Dorothy (Abby in film) and Martha, which raised it, its next marriage with the girl of the reverend Harper, who lives with a few tens of meters from there. But he discovers, hidden in a trunk under the window, the corpse of an old man. His/her two aunts acknowledge to him then, most ingenuously and most naturally of the world, which they were made a speciality remove the old Sirs alone in the world in order to render service to them…

Comment

The film became one of the great classics of the American comedy, gaining a success which does not weaken the decades busy. The challenge of the film adaptation of a play to make of it a film of almost two hours in door - closed became a reference on the matter, thanks to a proportioning in the graduation and the progressive accumulation of the situations, the effects and the reversals.

These elements, whose majority appear in the original part, are been useful by an interpretation which marked the spirits, which one retains especially the couple formed by the poor surgeon esthetic Peter Lorre and his unhappy patient Raymond Massey, with whom it made the head of Frankenstein such as it was interpreted by Boris Karloff, and especially the interpretation of Cary Grant which escapes ridiculous in its diving, progressive and flabbergasted, in a half-tone engraving Folie.

Data sheet

  • French Title: Arsenic and old laces

  • original Title: Arsenic and Old Laces

  • Production: Frank Capra for Warner Bros.; executive producer: Jack L. Warner

  • American Film

  • Coming out date: 1944
  • Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - its monophonic - 35 mm
  • Lasted: 118 minutes
  • Kind: Comedy

Distribution

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External bond

  • Arsenic and old laces on Internet Movie Database

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