Bergen County Cooperative Library System

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace [videorecording (DVD)] / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein ; directed by Frank Capra.

Other Title:

Arsenic and old lace

Uniform Title:

Arsenic and old lace (Motion picture : 1944)

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Credits:

Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.

Performers:

Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital mono.

Summary:

A young man is shocked when he learns his aunts like to serve men elderberry wine spiked with arsenic, and then bury their bodies in the cellar.

Notes:

Full screen (1.33:1).

From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Special features: Cast & crew; Stage to screen.

Director of photography, Sol Polito ; film editor, Daniel Mandell ; music by Max Steiner.

Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital mono.

In English with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

Subjects:

Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967 -- Film adaptations.

Aunts -- Drama.

Arsenic -- Toxicology -- Drama.

Serial murders -- Drama.

Aunts -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Feature films.