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
Leather and Lace recorded the Nicks composition "Gold Dust Woman" for his 1978 duet album with Willie Nelson entitled "Waylon and Willie". "Leather and Lace" peaked at #11 on "Billboard"s country albums chart. AllMusic: "The outlaw movement had run its course by the time "Leather and Lace" was made, so Colter and Jennings were free to make their overdue duet album without having to prop up that particular facade. The result is an enjoyable half-hour of husband-and-wife music, comfortable as an old shoe." Leather and Lace Leather and Lace is a duet album by Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, released on RCA Victor