![Arsenic & Old Lace](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Arsenic_&_Old_Lace.jpeg/900px-Arsenic_&_Old_Lace.jpeg)
Arsenic & Old Lace
Arsenic & Old Lace is a 1962 television film directed by George Schaefer and starring Tony Randall, Dorothy Stickney, and Mildred Natwick. It first aired as the 3rd episode of season 11 of the NBC anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame. It is an adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's 1939 play Arsenic and Old Lace.
Plot
The story is a black comedy in which drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Randall) discovers that his elderly aunts Abby and Martha (Stickney and Natwick respectively) have been poisoning their lonely male guests.
Cast
More details
director | George Schaefer |
---|---|
genre | comedy drama |
keywords | poison |
publisher | NBC |
theme | black comedy |