Arsenic and Old Lace

• 1944
• 1 hr 58 mins
• NR

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Macabre comedy about a pair of sweet old ladies from Brooklyn who put lonely bachelors out of their misery with sips from their arsenic-laced elderberry wine---"acts of mercy" that their visiting nephew finds hard to swallow. The film is based on Joseph Kesselring's Broadway play, a long-running hit that contractually delayed release of the picture almost three years