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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Film · 118 min
Directed by Frank Capra
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Apologies for chiming in, but I wonder is you can give a piece of advise for someone who discovered Cary Grant movies just a short while ago?
Recommended Arsenic and Old Lace weren't enjoyable at all (Grant played amazingly though), but the Philadelphia Story (best movie I've seen in years), Charade, North by Northwest, Father Goose - those are amazing masterpieces which I enjoyed a lot.
Yeah, that one is great.
Another fun classic is "Arsenic and Old Lace" even though you can very much tell that it's a stage adaptation. My friend's favorite Cary Grant movie is "That Touch of Mink" which I need to see again because the first time I watched it I didn't really get into it.
"Holiday", which is discussed in the original article, is definitely another recommendation worth watching.
And let's not forget the Hitchcock ones, like "North by Northwest", or, my favorite, "To Catch a Thief".
<b>but the films that make the most money are rarely bad. The highest grossing films of the last three years have been Avatar, The Dark Knight, and Toy Story 3</b>
Which, even if praised by whoring critics, are all quite bad , formulaic, shit.
They aren't gonna be near (random selection of quality stuff): Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, Arsenic and Old Lace, Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo et al in any cinephiles list...