Frank Capra | Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 / 1944

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DIRECTOR OF "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" AND "IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT" and others

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Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a "proto-feminist" director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.

This page updated November 2, 2007

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Filmed 1941
Released to theatres in 1944

Premiered on September 1, 1944 in New York City
General release on September 23, 1944
Produced between October 20, 1941 - December 1941
Filmed in Black and White
Sound by RCA Sound System (mono track)
118 minutes long; 12 reels of film

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LINKS
The "Ultimate Cary Grant" web site has a large collection of stills from the film here.

A web site about Peter Lorre has info and pix here.

[Above] Cary Grant rapidly losing his mind in the throes
of the mayhem of Arsenic and Old Lace.

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CAPRA FILM PAGES:
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Broadway Bill (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Lady for A Day (1933)
American Madness (1932)
Forbidden (1931)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
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