Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie • 1944 • Comedy
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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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No but the romantic interest tries to tell her husband something and he kisses her to keep her quiet, so this is against her will, and she eventually submits.
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One scene has a pretty intense threat of torture/mutilation and murder using an array of blades, hooks, etc., but it never actually occurs.
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One scene has a pretty intense threat of torture/mutilation and murder using an array of blades, hooks, etc., but it never actually occurs.
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The plot is about a family of mentally ill people who commit murders.
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The villain has had repeated reconstructive surgery to hide his identity and currently looks like Boris Karloff, so he becomes extremely angry and violent if someone points out his face and how he looks.
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There is some mild bigotry expressed in the form of not wanting to bury a "foreigner" in the same place as "one of our gentlemen" and a few other mildly disparaging characterizations of the same person because he's a "foreigner". The person in question is never actually shown in the movie; he is only discussed.
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