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
Bucks point lace to have been based on contemporary Mechlin lace, but with Mechlin ground replaced by a simpler point ground to give a lighter lace as had become popular at the time. Bucks point lace Bucks point is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England. "Bucks" is short for Buckinghamshire, which was the main centre of production. The lace was also made in the nearby counties of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Bucks point is very similar to the French Lille lace, and thus is often called English Lille. It is also similar to Mechlin lace and Chantilly lace. Bucks Point has