Classic Movie Night: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) In-Person
Happy October! Ready for some chills, thrills and a ton of laughs in a classic movie?
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) greet him with love, sweetness . . . and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
Registration is suggested. Registration will close 2 hours prior to the scheduled start time of the event. Walk-ins welcome.
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This program supports PA Forward®, an initiative of the Pennsylvania Library Association that highlights libraries’ role in moving Pennsylvania forward. Libraries are key to powering progress, elevating the quality of life by fueling the types of knowledge essential to its success.
- Date:
- Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Chester County Library System:
- Chester County Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Adults