Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)'s comments

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justanotherfrog

wow, so much negativity here. I thought this was hilarious- a great dark comedy

13 years ago

Henry K Hurtin

Grant's facial expressions are hilarious.

10 years 4 months ago

demet

Peter Lorre is more than meets the eye, silent talent.

11 years 9 months ago

Idiotwind

"I'm not so sure I want to be down in the cellar with him. Look at that puss. He looks like Boris Karloff."

12 years 5 months ago

Scream1008

This movie is hilarious. Cary Grant is awesome.

13 years ago

lauli

The best scene is when his aunts break to him that they are murderesses. From then on it sort of goes downhill

13 years 1 month ago

DulceDoes

"I'm not a cab driver, I'm a coffee pot!" Great classic film. I enjoyed every twist and turn it took.

11 years 9 months ago

twistedthursday

I have never laughed so loud in my life.

12 years 1 month ago

Shaunage

I'm in the 'not funny' party.

12 years 10 months ago

JoeMorrissy

Not funny?, cant understand how anyone would say this film isn't funny it's hilarious!

12 years 9 months ago

It's utter insanity caught on film and while not everybody's cup of tea it's a solid entry in dark comedy. Just when you think that it can't get any crazier is when you find out it's just getting warmed up. Grant looks like he's caught in some sort of fever-induced nightmare with Priscilla Lane and the incomparable Peter Lorre rounding out the cast nicely.

2 years 4 months ago

cingozrecai

it was amusing, absurd and even funny at times, but most of the time just boring. maybe the duration was too long.

9 years 7 months ago

mcmakattack

Such a charming romp! Capra leans into the stage play aspects of this script and shoots it in such a way as to make the camera invisible. His technique and direction here allows the performances to shine, and the cast here is wonderful. Cary Grant and Peter Lorre are treasures.

2 weeks 3 days ago

Siskoid

Screwball or not, Cary Grant is pretty broad in Arsenic and Old Lace, a black comedy originally from the stage, about, well, almost too many things, which is the point of screwball. As the movie starts, we're really at the end of another, because the premise of a tyrant against marriage getting hitched would be its own romcom (I mean, it's Much Ado About Nothing), and it's really incidental to the story (as is the fact that it's Halloween night), because he soon finds a dead body in his beloved aunts' windowsill chest, learns they're batshit crazy, even as another family member thinks they're Teddy Roosevelt, and his long-lost, equally psychotic brother returns to the house with his plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre of course) in tow. It's a big mess he has to untangle, and Frank Capra dependably makes it all work in terms of plot mechanics, with a great cast of comedic actors. You think you're in for a zany household like in You Can't Take It With You, but it's darker than that, and yet, kind of harmless. But the style makes it rather shouty, and to modern eyes, it feels almost like 1960s Jerry Lewis choreographed it. I liked it, but maybe didn't buy Grant in it.

3 years 3 months ago

Darkness_prevails

I thought it was really funny.

12 years 9 months ago