Arsenic and Old Lace (film) script. Capra's own intelligent direction rounds out." "Harrison's Reports" wrote: "An hilarious entertainment, it should turn out to be one of the year's top box-office attractions." John Lardner of "The New Yorker" called the film "practically as funny in picture form as it did on the stage, and that is very funny indeed." Twenty-four years after the film was released, Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg wrote "Hollywood in the Forties" where they stated that "Frank Capra provided a rather overstated and strained version of "Arsenic and Old Lace"". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: According
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