ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

A classic black farce in which two old ladies invite lonely old men to their Brooklyn home, poison them and get their mad brother, who believes the corpses are yellow fever victims, to bury them in the cellar. A homicidal nephew then turns up, bringing bodies of his own.

Director Frank Capra

Comedy 1942, b/w 118 mins, Warner Bros.

Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Priscilla Lane, Peter Lorre