[Vision]

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[AnotherUnixGeek]

Good movie. Personally, I thought Cary Grant overdid it a few times, but very funny overall. Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey were terrific.

"I've lived a strange life, Mortimer...".

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Thanks for the ping. I’ll be watching.

This play used to be performed by many high schools back in the day.

[Sherman Logan]

As others have said, a classic.

I’d also like to commend the supporting characters of the two old aunts, Teddy and Cary’s new bride. She is great, but seems to have not had much of a career.

[ReformationFan]

Interestingly enough, both the star(Grant) and director(Frank Capra “It’s A Wonderful Life”) were staunch Republicans and American patriots who would be blacklisted by the Hollywood of today.

[greene66]

I saw Grant in the 80s, when he was going around the country on a lecture series, in which he’d take questions from the audience. Someone asked him about “Arsenic and Old Lace,” and he seemed particularly sour on the topic of his performance, feeling he played it too broadly. Funny film, and I think he was fine in it, despite his misgivings.

[mylife]

You haven’t seen it?
Its hilarious!

[trisham]

It’s in my top ten list.

[mylife]

Well Vision,
Did you enjoy it as much of the rest of us did?

I think some of Cary Grants greatest talent was comedy, though I think Arsenic And Old Lace was so slapstick that it reminded him of his days in the Circus as Archibald Leach.

[GizzyGirl]

Thank you so much for this post... I needed a break from politics tonight, so I decided to watch Arsenic and Old Lace, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! Hope you did as well, and again thank you for letting us/me know. It was a pleasure to laugh out loud while watching TV... It's been awhile.

[WXRGina]

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