Cary Grant may not have liked Arsenic and Old Lace, but I think it is probably his best film ever. There were some geniuses at work on this film.
I certainly don't have a problem with old ladies murdering people (they are doing it as a labour of love for their "old gentlemen"). And like it or not, age does not preclude one from being a murderer. That's the bitter-sweet about it, hence the ARSENIC and the OLD LACE.
The b&w gives it a nice atmosphere. The story and the characters belong to a time now passed, and that helps give it its charm. I would not like to see the colour-eyes-ed version.
Does anyone else agree with me in thinking that Mortimer Brewster may have had an English (grand-)son called Basil Fawlty? The styles are so similar, and the pace (frenetic!) is very similar.
As Mortimer says (on the phone) - "a thing happened". In actual fact, the film is so hectic, and crammed full of humour, that I laugh continuously, and at the end feel so tired that I can hardly get out of the chair to reach for the sherry.....
I certainly don't have a problem with old ladies murdering people (they are doing it as a labour of love for their "old gentlemen"). And like it or not, age does not preclude one from being a murderer. That's the bitter-sweet about it, hence the ARSENIC and the OLD LACE.
The b&w gives it a nice atmosphere. The story and the characters belong to a time now passed, and that helps give it its charm. I would not like to see the colour-eyes-ed version.
Does anyone else agree with me in thinking that Mortimer Brewster may have had an English (grand-)son called Basil Fawlty? The styles are so similar, and the pace (frenetic!) is very similar.
As Mortimer says (on the phone) - "a thing happened". In actual fact, the film is so hectic, and crammed full of humour, that I laugh continuously, and at the end feel so tired that I can hardly get out of the chair to reach for the sherry.....