{"id":17112,"date":"2017-01-07T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17112"},"modified":"2020-07-23T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:40:10","slug":"arsenic-and-old-lace-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17112","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z010717zview_arsenicandoldlace_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"495\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong>&nbsp;Frank Capra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:<strong> Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein <\/strong>based on the play by<strong>&nbsp;Joseph Kesselring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane,&nbsp;Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason,&nbsp;Josephine Hull, Jean Adair,&nbsp;John Alexander<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;Charles Lane.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>The Pitch: &#8220;Hey, turn <em>Arsenic and Old Lace<\/em> into a movie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She&#8217;s just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As he&#8217;s about to leave on his honeymoon, Mortimer Brewster discovers that his dear old Aunts have been poisoning old, lonely men who are without friends or family. &nbsp;The Aunts have their crazy brother (who thinks he&#8217;s Teddy Roosevelt) bury them in the basement. &nbsp;&#8220;Teddy&#8221; thinks that they&#8217;re victims of malaria and he&#8217;s digging the Suez canal.<\/p>\n<p>To complicate maters, Mortimer&#8217;s violent criminal brother, Jonathon, &nbsp;returns after 20 years away. &nbsp;Jonathon is more than willing to kill Mortimer, the Aunts or anyone who gets in his way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arsenic and Old Lace<\/em> is one of my all-time favorite comedies. &nbsp;Yes, the comedy is broad and there are double takes and it is all wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z010717zview_arsenicandoldlace_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Director:&nbsp;Frank Capra Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein based on the play by&nbsp;Joseph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23934,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}