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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Uncut Version (Patreon)

Published:
2026-10-01 00:00:15
Edited:
2026-10-01 00:00:16
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2026-10

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Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Jean Adair, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Raymond Massey, John Alexander, NOT BORIS KARLOFF

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Erin Mileur

To be fair Raymond Massey is really made up to look like Boris Karloff and looks a lot like him.

Erin Mileur

The films screenwriters Julius and Philip Epstein are two of the screenwriters of Casablanca they were brothers and wrote a lot of movies at Warner Bros at this time.

Ryan

I never get tired of watching this one; every actor knows exactly what they’re here for and just go for broke with it (though unfortunately Cary Grant ended up hating how over the top he went and this became one of his least favorite of his films). My favorite gag is how Teddy is totally unmoored in the timeline of Theodore Roosevelt’s life and just casually brings up things from the future all the time, and the portrayal of mental illness itself naturally has gotten some knocks these days but I find it ages pretty well. The most typically “insane” person is totally harmless and universally beloved, and the seemingly normal aunts are the ones to really watch out for.

Erin Mileur

About the pace a lot of Warner Bros. movies from the 30s and 40s go at a much faster pace and have many great examples of montages.

Erin Mileur

At the beginning of the movie at Ebbets Field the Brooklyn Dodgers did actually have band that played at games the so-called Dodger Sym-phony. It was an amateur band of die hard Dodger fans that began in 1937 and ended when the Dodgers left in 57.

CJGardner

Another deliriously delightful Frank Capra is You Can't Take it with You, 1938 - Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, and Lionel Barrymore again - very much NOT a similar character to Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. The most deliciously heartwarming bag-of-cats chaos you could ever dream of. Strong recommendation!

Clare Manion

Mid-watch comment: “…nice looking considering he’s a Methodist.” Hahaha! I was raised Methodist. I don’t know about any aesthetic objection to us, but we did have a rather self deprecating joke about being the ‘religion of the potluck’ (no matter what the event was, there was a lot of food… mostly casseroles of the most midwestern tradition, lol.)

dys

I guess this must be a popular one for 7th graders to do, my little brother played Teddy in a school production at that age and as far as I remember he nailed it. There are minor elements that date this to the 40s but I bet if it had only come out in 2026 it would still be a daring comedy. I'm not sure there were individual houses that close to the Brooklyn Bridge even in 1944, they probably just put the bridge in the matte background to hammer in that it's Brooklyn. From the angle looks like it's around what is now Dumbo, which would have been mostly industrial back then. There are still detached houses in Brooklyn when you go farther out into neighborhoods like Flatbush or Midwood (but still pretty small and closely packed like what you might find in inner neighborhoods of Kansas City), and some legit villas in Dyker Heights (but still with pretty small yards). Total sidenote but I wonder if you guys would be open to changing up the layout for the uncut videos to have your own video above the movie or something. I usually watch the watch-along versions but $6 to rent on amazon is a little steep for a 1944 movie (which if copyright weren't insane would have been public domain for a long time now), but I'd also prefer to see the whole frame of the movie rather than the bottom-right corner covered even if it means there's more blank space onscreen.

Sammy Fan

LOL! Raymond Massey (Jonathan) was actually in Inherit the Wind as the other attorney. The cop who ID'd Johnathan was in Night of the Hunter as the drunk uncle of the kids. This may be the funniest movie I've ever seen.

Pam Nail

That was Fredric March in Inherit the Wind.

Pam Nail

My school did one of those arts rotations too and I ended up in drama. We actually put on this play when I was in 7th grade. Our teacher broke the play up into 9 or 10 scenes (so no one had to memorize the whole play and to give more kids a chance to be on stage). We kept track of characters with signature costume pieces (i.e., every kid who played Mortimer wore the same jacket, etc.). I played Elaine in the night scene where she runs into Jonathan and had the most pathetic puppy scream you've ever heard as our Jonathan dragged me into the basement.

Sammy Fan

LOL! You are right. I have had that messed up since I was a kid.

Clare Manion

Post-watch: What a fun watch and excellent timing! (Thank you Tara!) I saw this for the first time when I was about 12 or 13 — I thought it was hilarious then, and even more so now. Cary Grant is wonderfully manic, but my favorite will always be Uncle President Teddy Roosevelt :) How fun would it be to be in a stage production of this? I’d absolutely love to be one of the crazy aunts 😄

dys

"All I did was cross the bridge and I was in Brooklyn" -me IRL commuting home most weekdays but unironically, I lived in Manhattan when I first moved to NYC and I wouldn't trade my Brooklyn neighborhood for anywhere else in the city.

Ginevra

"Notorius" for more Cary Grant!

kosmickrab

Thank you to Tara for picking this. Arsenic and Old Lace is an all-time favorite of mine going back to childhood. I'm sure this was my introduction to Cary Grant (and Peter Lorre) and he's been one of my favorite old Hollywood actors ever since. I still breaks my heart that he would dismiss his performance in this movie later on. It's one of his best! Joe and Kevin, I think Cary Grant deserves a spot on the wall at this point. I took notice of the staging and direction on this watch more than I have before and it's so well done. On top of that you just have an excellent script. A side note: I always enjoy seeing E. Everett Horton (the Happydale caretaker) in this movie. If you grew up watching the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, you'll recognize his voice as the narrator of the Fractured Fairy Tale segments.

Just Lily

You need to see Holiday with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn!

Pam Nail

Also, Boris Karloff DID play Jonathan in the stage play, and they wanted him to be in the film but there was a scheduling conflict.

Ben Gilbert

Karloff was a producer of the play and was afraid that it would hurt the play's box office if he took time off. He also didn't want to disappoint fans who came to see him.

Tara

Glad you enjoyed it! I saw it in the west end years ago with Michael Richards as Jonathon (pre racist diatribe of course!) which was amazing, but of course nothing beats the movie.

rojowo

Teddy's actually Mortimer and Jonathan's brother! I too was confused at first and thought he was an uncle

JENNIFER E

This was my favorite Cary Grant movie as kid and it still hits as an adult. Thank you, Tara.

Ginevra

I enjoyed watching this one over again with you guys!

Sly_Budlong

The first time I watched this I was a senior in high school (2010) and thought it was absolutely the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life! 😂 A few years later I tried to get my mother to watch it and she didn't get it at all! It really was more my father's sense of humor anyway! 😂

Abby T W

I grew up on this movie and it still makes me so happy every time I watch it! Absolutely hilarious! "Insanity runs in my family; it practically gallops!"

Carl Wilson

It feels like they could just shrink their corner of the screen on the uncuts, so it was more like an eighth rather than a quarter of the screen.

Biff McKeldin

I saw a production of the play in 1973: a summer stock theater my family had season tickets to. When their season was announced, the cast list initially included Lon Chaney, Jr. Unfortunately he died not too long after the announcement. In thinking back on it, I wonder if they would have changed the Karloff references to "Lon Chaney" references? Mortimer was played by William Shatner and Miss Abby by Sylvia Sidney (a great star in her day). Jonathan was ultimately played by Peter Lupus... a supporting regular on MISSION IMPOSSIBLE... who was built along the same lines as Karloff. There is a 1962 television production available on YouTube that preserves Karloff's take on Jonathan (with Tony Randall as Mortimer). After seeing the movie (which was polished until it *gleamed*) however, the television version falls flat. The only real misstep the movie version made was to change the ending. On stage after Mortimer and Elaine leave, Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha are miffed because Jonathan chides them as he's leaving about their scores remaining even (12 to 12). Alone on the stage with Mr. Witherspoon they find out that he has no family, and so prepare for their 13th body. The curtain falls just as Witherspoon is about to drink the poisoned wine.