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
Old Lace (comics) The Pride Old Lace was briefly under the control of Alex Wilder while Gertrude was unconscious, but Gertrude quickly took control back when she came to. Seconds before Gert's death, she was able to pass her telepathic link with Old Lace to her boyfriend Chase Stein, since her death would have killed Lace as well via their telepathic link. Even though Old Lace has a telepathic bond with Chase now, she has been shown to have some free will. This is first shown when Old Lace attacks a vampire named Topher, despite Gertrude telling her to stop and again when