Arsenic and Old Lace (1943)

[Akijama]

Release date: October 11

https://www.criterion.com/films/2900...c-and-old-lace

Special Features

New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New audio commentary featuring Charles Dennis, author of There’s a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of “Arsenic and Old Lace”
Radio adaptation from 1952 starring Boris Karloff
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns

New cover by F. Ron Miller

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, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who both starred in the Broadway production) greet him with love, sweetness . . . and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal (Raymond Massey) who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.

[Show spoiler]An old news perhaps, but few weeks ago, Alan K. Rode, a film historian, author, etc, have confirmed over at HTF that a BD release is in the work (perhaps he is providing a commentary for it).

https://www.hometheaterforum.com/com...2#post-5130991

Rumour has it that Criterion have it, so it could be announced soon