"Strike. Sei fuori!"
Arsenico e vecchi merletti
Mortimer Brewster, critico teatrale, va con la fidanzata a trovare le due anziane e amabili ziette. Dopo che Mortimer ha scoperto un cadavere in una cassapanca, le due candide signorine gli confessano senza difficoltà di aver già ucciso una dozzina di vecchietti e di averli sepolti in cantina con la collaborazione del nipote mentecatto Teddy. Dall'omonima commedia di Joseph Kesselring una delle più celebri opere di Frank Capra, scritta in stato di grazia e recitata da un cast impeccabile. Le simpatiche vecchiette assassine e il ritmo dei loro misfatti dimostrano che Capra non è il regista "buonista" che si vorrebbe far credere.
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Case di produzione
Immagini
Cast
Cast principale
Cary Grant
Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane
Elaine Harper Brewster
Josephine Hull
Aunt Abby Brewster
Jean Adair
Aunt Martha Brewster
Raymond Massey
Jonathan Brewster
John Alexander
'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
Peter Lorre
Dr. Einstein
Jack Carson
Officer Patrick O'Hara
Edward Everett Horton
Mr. Witherspoon
James Gleason
Lt. Rooney
Grant Mitchell
Reverend Harper
Edward McNamara
Sergeant Brophy
Simili
Gardenia blu
L'ombra dell'uomo ombra
Alta tensione
Gioco sleale
La famiglia omicidi
2022: I sopravvissuti
Hostile Takeover
Professione assassino
Recensioni degli utenti
Vedi tutto su TMDBFrenetic roller-coaster ride - Capra style! The Broadway show this film is based on ran for something like four years, such was the yearning for riotous rompathons in the 40s, and thus here the Capra adaptation is pretty much non stop mania. Led by the perfectly cast Cary Grant, the film barely pauses for breath, stopping only briefly to put a bit of creepy menace into the otherwise insane plot…
There are thirteen bodies in the cellar! Oh, piffle. Drama critic Mortimer Brewster has just gotten married. But his newfound wedded bliss is interrupted by the disturbing discovery that his sweet old spinster aunts have been murdering lonely old men with their homemade elderberry wine, and burying the bodies in the cellar. This demented screwball comedy was the film that introduced me to Ca…
**An extraordinary comedy that stands out for its unpretentiousness.** I didn't have high expectations when I decided to watch this film, and I think this increased the impact it ended up having even more: based on a successful play, the film is an extraordinary comedy full of bizarreness and mischief, without a single dead moment and full of twists and turns that make us laugh and amuse us. …