Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1152]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~35.9 Mbps | 1hr 58mn | 38.7 GB
English: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps \ English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~35.9 Mbps | 1hr 58mn | 38.7 GB
English: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps \ English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Julius J. Epstein (screen play), Philip G. Epstein (screen play), Joseph Kesselring (play)
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
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 (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who both starred in the Broadway production) greet him with love, sweetness . . . and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff (Raymond Massey), and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
Extras:
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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
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