The Golden Age of Hollywood

The Golden Age of Hollywood
"Garbo, Bogart, Bacall, Gable, K. Hepburn, Astaire, Rogers, Brando, The Marx Brothers, Crawford, Wayne, Stewart, Keaton, Colbert, Gene Kelly, Lancaster, Garland, Peck, Taylor, Douglas, Davis, A. Hepburn, Harlow, Hitchcock, Ford, Hawks, Grace Kelly, Olivier, Dietrich, Cagney, Gardner, Grant, Bergman, Fonda, Monroe, Dean, Welles, West, Holden, Loren, Leigh, Cooper and Fontaine, Tracy, Stanwyck, Gish, Power, Temple, Heston, Hayworth, Pickford"

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Movie Review #5 - Arsenic and Old Lace

                      Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Edward Everett Horton
Running Time: 118 minutes
Production Co.: Warner Bros.
Academy Award Nominations: none


 

A dark comedy, Cary Grant stars as Mortimer Brewster, a newlywed dramatic critic. His two aunts seem normal but they have a secret. They kill lonely old gentlemen. Then there is his brother, Jonathan (Massey)who looks like Boris Karloff and his brownnosing assistant Dr. Einstein (Lorre). There's his happy go lucky wife, Elaine, who frankly, talks way too much. Breezily directed by the master Frank Capra (of It's A Wonderful Life fame). Not for very young children but older children, teens, and adults will enjoy this movie. Full of laughs and contortions, this is sort of a dark slapstick comedy. Highly recommended.
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