Réalisation:
Frank CapraPhotographie:
Sol PolitoMusique:
Max SteinerActeurs·trices:
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair (plus)Résumés(1)
Deux exquises vieilles dames font disparaître de vieux messieurs. Mortimer, leur neveu découvre l'affaire. Mais, l'affaire se corse pour lui quand il découvre que ses cousins, l'un gentil, l'autre méchant, sont également mêlés à l'histoire et que les cadavres s'amoncellent dans la cave. (texte officiel du distributeur)
Critiques (2)
This is one of those evergreens that I always come back to and it never disappoints me. The five stars are not so much for the film, but rather for the theatrical source full of amazing dialogues, great lines, and bizarre characters. Adding a quality cast was enough to ensure the film's success. As many others have noted, the final form of the film is perhaps too faithful to the theatrical version. It definitely wasn't an expensive film, but that's not really important for the result. Cary Grant is great and the others helped him out nicely. Overall impression: 95%.
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Arsenic and Old Lace is seemingly the ideal Christmas movie. However, the hysterical screwball comedy does not do 1940s Hollywood any credit. This half-crazed, supposedly black-humor comedy is from the family of films like Bringing Up Baby that make me physically uncomfortable. Unfortunately, not even the lovely Priscilla Lane or the traditionally insane Peter Lorre can do anything in this no-holds-barred disaster with the worst Cary Grant performance ever. Poor Boris Karloff.
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