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  1. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    Mortimer's family is just like everyone else's, normal on the outside, but crazy inside. The could be the ones who inspired The Addams Family.
  2. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    The 2 DVD's don't sell the story about sweet little old ladies killing people.
  3. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    At least with the last VHS, Cary carrying Priscilla doesn't look too bad as he is doing through the cemetery.
  4. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    All the previous home video releases before DVD included Cary and both of his aunts and would give you and idea what the movie was about if you hadn't seen it before. The original DVD of Cary carrying the girl over his shoulder amongst a solid white background doesn't sell the film at all, it...
  5. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    Here's a history of Arsenic's home video releases. This last one makes it looks like it's a rom-com.
  6. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    Those two are very Screwballesque, more so with Mr. Blanding's as that plot of that film is textbook Screwball. If it had started Katharine Hepburn it could have been the sequel to Bringing Up Baby as I could easily see Katharine playing Myrna Loy's character, as she was bit like Katharine's...
  7. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    Can never go wrong with Cary Grant. Arsenic was one of his the last big screwball comedies.
  8. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    My high school drama department did this the fall of 2005 and it was a riotous successes. I ran tech for it backstage and had a blast hanging out with the cast. At the same time as the show was going on, the theater class that I was taking was chosen to be a seniors final exam/project which was...
  9. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    A single location for an entire film can be more affective than traveling all over throughout. Having a single location works in a lot films, such as two Hitchcock classics; Rope and Rear Window and even more so in my favorite Audrey Hepburn film, Wait Until Dark.
  10. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    Here's another blurb from the film's Wikipedia page, no more mention of Massey, but how the film was shot in just 8 weeks. Josephine Hull and Jean Adair portray the Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, respectively. Hull and Adair, as well as John Alexander (who played Teddy Brewster), were...
  11. darkrock17

    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    This blurb is taken from the film's Wikipedia page On the Broadway stage, Boris Karloff played Jonathan Brewster, who is said to "look like Boris Karloff". According to TCM, Karloff, who gave permission for the use of his name in the film, remained in the play to appease the producers, who were...
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    Cary Grant's Arsenic & Old Lace needs a restoration and UPgrade

    The Broadway play was still running when the film was made back in 1941, the film had to wait until the play finished its run first before it was released in 1944.
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