Arsenic and Old Lace

Amazon.com essential video

Frank Capra made this film in 1941 before he went off to make films for America's war effort, but it wasn't released until 1944. Adapted from the hit play by Joseph Kesselring, this frantic black comedy shows Capra at his best as a master of mood and timing. Actresses Josephine Hull and Jean Adair reprise their Broadway performances as two gentle old ladies who poison men with elderberry wine to put them out of their misery. Cary Grant plays one nephew, a normal guy who just gets wind of their little hobby and tries to get them to stop, while Raymond Massey plays another, a villain just escaped from jail. Capra encourages the cast, especially Grant, to give a somewhat more outsized performance than one might expect. But made during the war years as it was, this overstated comic approach to killing was probably cathartic. --Tom Keogh

Description

You'll die laughing! Frank Capra directs Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre and stellar cast in the hit Broadway farce about a nutcase family with well-intentioned homicidal tendencies.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent movie; excellent service. .......2007-09-12

This is a wonderful movie, one of my favorites. And it was a joy to find it on DVD. Service was quick. Product is as advertised.

At LAST it's on DVD!.......2007-08-23

This has always been one of my favorite movies, and one of my husband's as well, and he's a war movie fan.
If you're a Cary Grant fan and you like a simple comedy, this is for you.
Excellent performances and you've just got to love the 'aunts'!

Good seller.......2007-08-21

The product was in good shape. It was exactly as it was described I was very pleased with my purchase.

ARSENIC AND OL LACE.......2007-08-15

It's been out for years but still I never saw it through-end to end. My wife wanted to see it, so I bought it. One mof the funniest movies I've seen!

Doug

Arsnic & Old Lace.......2007-06-27

A Classic screwball comedy with Cary Grant at his best. Also starring Josephine Hull who reprises her Broadway role in a 5 star performance. Black and white movies do not get any better than this. A must see for all fans.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / Arsenic And Old Lace (Two-Pack)

Average customer rating:

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / Arsenic And Old Lace (Two-Pack)
Starring: Warner 2pak
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Drama | Genres | DVD | Video

( M ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House/Arsenic and Old Lace

Average customer rating:

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House/Arsenic and Old Lace
Starring: Warner 2pak
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Drama | Genres | DVD | Video

( M ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video

Average customer rating:

Excellent movie; excellent service.
At LAST it's on DVD!
Good seller
ARSENIC AND OL LACE
Arsnic & Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace [Region 2]
Starring: Cary Grant , Josephine Hull , Jean Adair , Raymond Massey , and Peter Lorre
Director: Frank Capra
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

( A ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:

ASIN: B000056BB9

Amazon.com essential video

Customer Reviews:

Excellent movie; excellent service. .......2007-09-12

This is a wonderful movie, one of my favorites. And it was a joy to find it on DVD. Service was quick. Product is as advertised.

At LAST it's on DVD!.......2007-08-23

Good seller.......2007-08-21

The product was in good shape. It was exactly as it was described I was very pleased with my purchase.

ARSENIC AND OL LACE.......2007-08-15

It's been out for years but still I never saw it through-end to end. My wife wanted to see it, so I bought it. One mof the funniest movies I've seen!

Doug

Arsnic & Old Lace.......2007-06-27

Average customer rating:

Excellent movie; excellent service.
At LAST it's on DVD!
Good seller
ARSENIC AND OL LACE
Arsnic & Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace [Region 2]
Starring: Cary Grant , Josephine Hull , Jean Adair , Raymond Massey , and Peter Lorre
Director: Frank Capra
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

( A ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:

ASIN: B0006553UG

Amazon.com essential video

Customer Reviews:

Excellent movie; excellent service. .......2007-09-12

This is a wonderful movie, one of my favorites. And it was a joy to find it on DVD. Service was quick. Product is as advertised.

At LAST it's on DVD!.......2007-08-23

Good seller.......2007-08-21

The product was in good shape. It was exactly as it was described I was very pleased with my purchase.

ARSENIC AND OL LACE.......2007-08-15

It's been out for years but still I never saw it through-end to end. My wife wanted to see it, so I bought it. One mof the funniest movies I've seen!

Doug

Arsnic & Old Lace.......2007-06-27

Mr. Blandings Builds his dream house/North By northwest/Arsenic and Old Lace (3 pack)

Average customer rating:

Mr. Blandings Builds his dream house/North By northwest/Arsenic and Old Lace (3 pack)

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Classics | Genres | DVD | Video
ASIN: B000FNVE84

Product Description

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House: Cary Grant is hilarious as a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape the confines of his family's tiny midtown apartment. So he designs his dream home in the suburbs and discovers the project wasn't as easy as it seemed. The house gets larger. The bills get bigger. The problems just won't go away. Eventually, the whole affair becomes a nightmare-a very funny nightmare-that left audiences laughing in 1948 and will have you in stitches, too. This is the comedic masterpiece that inspired the popular 1987 movie "The Money Pit." It's an adventure in homeowning that strikes a familiar chord with everyone who's ever bought a house. Year: 1948 North by Northwest: Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged on of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films and spruced up with a new digital transfer and remixed Dolby Digital Stereo. He plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted, framed for murder, chased and in another signature set piece, crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from the facial features of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore (backlot sets were used). But don't expect the Master of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging. Arsenic and Old Lace: You'll die laughing! Frank Capra directs Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre and stellar cast in the hit Broadway farce about a nutcase family with well-intentioned homicidal tendencies.

Average customer rating:

Excellent movie; excellent service.
At LAST it's on DVD!
Good seller
ARSENIC AND OL LACE
Arsnic & Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace [Region 2]
Starring: Cary Grant , Josephine Hull , Jean Adair , Raymond Massey , and Peter Lorre
Director: Frank Capra
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

( A ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:

ASIN: B00005KKJP

Amazon.com essential video

Customer Reviews:

Excellent movie; excellent service. .......2007-09-12

This is a wonderful movie, one of my favorites. And it was a joy to find it on DVD. Service was quick. Product is as advertised.

At LAST it's on DVD!.......2007-08-23

Good seller.......2007-08-21

The product was in good shape. It was exactly as it was described I was very pleased with my purchase.

ARSENIC AND OL LACE.......2007-08-15

It's been out for years but still I never saw it through-end to end. My wife wanted to see it, so I bought it. One mof the funniest movies I've seen!

Doug

Arsnic & Old Lace.......2007-06-27

Cary Grant (7 Pack) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / North By Northwest / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Howards of Virginia / Once Upon A Time / Father Goose / That Touch of Mink

Average customer rating:

Cary Grant (7 Pack) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / North By Northwest / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Howards of Virginia / Once Upon A Time / Father Goose / That Touch of Mink

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Classics | Genres | DVD | Video
ASIN: B000GQIA5K

Product Description

CARY GRANT 7 PACK -Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House -North By Northwest -Arsenic and Old Lace -The Howards of Virginia -Once Upon A Time -Father Goose -That Touch of Mink

1940s Classics 7-Pack (Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / The Philadelphia Story / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Big Sleep / Now, Voyager / Citizen Kane)

Average customer rating:

Interesting combination
Best of the best
I don't have money to burn...
Can't understand these sets

1940s Classics 7-Pack (Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / The Philadelphia Story / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Big Sleep / Now, Voyager / Citizen Kane)
Starring: Louis V. Arco , Ingrid Bergman , Humphrey Bogart , Curt Bois , and Marcel Dalio
Director: Michael Curtiz
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Classics | Genres | DVD | Video

Classics | Boxed Sets | Stores | DVD | Video
ASIN: B000068GS3
Release Date: 2002-06-04

Description

This 7-DVD set includes Casablanca (Special Edition), The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition), The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Big Sleep (1946), Now, Voyager, and Citizen Kane.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting combination.......2005-01-21

I bought these separately before the package was made. I am not normally a fan of packaging unless it is a series or some other theme. However there is not a clinker in the bunch. I suggest you look at the individual reviews. However for those that are in a hurry:

Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman - Two people fall in love during war France as the Nazis are invading. They meet again in Casablanca the last outpost on the way to freedom. There is mystery, intrigue subterfuge and the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

The Maltese Falcon: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor - Sam Spade (Bogart) is accused of murdering his partner, murdering a suspect, and down right sneakiness. He is trying to find out why everyone is looking for the black bird. In the process he falls in love with Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor). Will they find the thing that dreams are made of?
A remake of the 1931 version.

The Philadelphia Story: Socialites Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn - A 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story. C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and Tracy Samantha Lord (Katherine Hepburn) get divorced. Now Tracy is going to marry George Kittredge, who worked his way up the corporate latter to the top of a mine. C. K. brings people from Spy magazine to cover the event. The fun begins as every one has second thoughts. And Wicked Uncle Willie is available.

Arsenic and Old Lace: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre - A Halloween tale. A critic of marriage gets married, and then he finds out that insanity runs in the family as two branches of the family compare body counts. This really is a comedy. They could not get Boris Karloff; however Raymond Massey does just as well. And don't forget Dr. Einstein (auch der lieber).

The Big Sleep: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall - A 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Private-eye Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is hired to keep an eye on Carmen (Martha Vickers), youngest daughter of General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), and you guessed it falls in love with older sister. Lots of sub plots. "You go too far, Marlowe."

Now, Voyager: Betty Davis, Paul Henreid - Based on the novel by Olivia Higgins Prouty. I think one of the shockers for me was when Charlotte Vale was forced to remove her eye glasses to find she did not need them. "Don't ask for the moon--we have the stars"

Citizen Kane: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton - A story is based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Because of its popularity as an art film many people have trouble just watching it as the story. Watch it to find out what is meant by Rosebud.

Best of the best.......2002-10-13

These are some of the best of the best movies ever made.

I don't have money to burn..........2002-09-13

Personally I didn't need all the movies in here, but I bought it anyway... Listen to me... buy just the movies you want, seperatly.

Can't understand these sets.......2002-07-16

I can't understand why anyone would purchase a set like this. If you buy all the included DVD's individually, not only will you still get free shipping, but it's actually [$$] cheaper. I think these movies are some of the best ever committed to celluloid, I encourage every motion picture fan to own these films, but I just think it's silly to purchase them in this way.

DVD:

DVD

DVD