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Can we get back to Arsenic and Old Lace, please?

I again will reiterate my view that Grant is hilarious simply because he's reacting in an un-Cary Grant way to the craziness of what's going on. I don't care if he hated the performance. Heck, I enjoyed how Grant worked in a nice subtle laugh unique to the film when Teddy calls Mr...

I think the fact that Grant is not being typical Grant is why the film is fun. That's not to say Grant would have been right to do a stage performance of the show, but for a *film* performance I think it worked.

Abe was Jonathan and Tony Roberts was Mortimer. A number of other familiar TV names later came on in the run as replacements (James MacArthur, Jonathan Frid, Larry Storch, Marion Ross).

That would be in keeping with the stage ending. I would have to agree that as a film ending, it wouldn't work. When I saw a 1986 revival in New York with Jean Stapleton, Polly Holliday, Abe Vigoda, William Hickey and Tony Roberts they did a gimmick at the curtain call where suddenly 12...

About the only bonus feature I think they could have tried for is a better quality kinescope of the Hallmark Hall Of Fame broadcast from 1962 where Karloff finally got to reprise his role in the visual medium (Tony Randall as Mortimer and Tom Bosley as Teddy). There are some not too good...

And after more than 23 years, the LAST snapper case in my collection can be disposed of!