Arsenic and Old Lace (Warner Brothers, 1944). Insert (14" X 36")....

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Arsenic and Old Lace (Warner Brothers, 1944). Insert (14" X 36"). Frank Capra was tapped to direct the U.S. War Department's Why We Fight series during World War II, but had time to squeeze out this delightful comedy starring Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster, a man who discovers that his two saintly old aunts, Martha and Abby, have a nasty habit of killing lonely old men and, with the help of their bugle-blowing nephew Teddy (who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt), burying them in the cellar. Grant's other nephew Jonathan, also a killer, has one of the best "creepy alcoholic side kicks," Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre), and what ensues with this fine menagerie of characters is one of the screwiest of all screwball comedy classics. With Capra finishing the film in 1941, the film would not enter the American theaters for three years, having to wait in the can until the Broadway show closed its run. There are small tape stains in the bottom right, a crease in the bottom center, and some slight edge wear on the bottom border. There is a tear in the lower bottom border repaired with tape on the front, and slight smudges in the top right field. One of debonair Grant's most comical posters. Fine+.

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