Screwball Quote Of The Day: ARSENIC & OLD LACE (1944)

Mortimer Brewster: Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
-ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)

Screwball Monday: Arsenic & Old Lace

What better way to start off Monday by watching Arsenic and Old Lace.

The definition of a dark comedy. When you mix humor with murderers and corpses, then throw in Cary Grant with two old bitties (his aunts) who happen to like killing single old men- then count me in. A truly different type comedy that has to be seen. Cary is of course in perfect form. Josephine Hull and Jean Adair as his aunts are quite funny. And lets not forget the long lost brother Raymond Massey who just escaped from prison and decides to come home. Plus Priscilla Lane is fetching as Cary's girlfriend-soon to be wife. Oh and Peter Lorre as Massey's sidekick. I couldn't forget about him, now could I Irene?


Just a little sip...please?

One of my all time favorite movies.

Arsenic & Old Lace clip - Reunion between Mortimer and Jonathan

 Here's a funny little clip from Arsenic and Old Lace