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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Title:	Arsenic and Old Lace [IMDb]				Film Structure Tag Cloud
Release date:	September 23, 1944
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Runtime:	118 minutes
IMDB genres:	comedy, crime, thriller
Award Nominations:	Best Archival Re-Recording of an Existing Score
BYU holdings:	https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6768544

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Cast and Crew Actor Role Cary Grant Mortimer Brewster Priscilla Lane Elaine Harper Raymond Massey Jonathan Brewster Jack Carson O'Hara Edward Everett Horton Mr. Witherspoon Peter Lorre Dr. Einstein James Gleason Police Lt. Rooney Josephine Hull Abby Brewster Jean Adair Martha Brewster John Alexander Teddy Roosevelt Brewster Grant Mitchell Reverend Harper Edward McNamara Brophy Garry Owen Taxi Cab Driver John Ridgely Saunders Vaughan Glaser Judge Cullman Chester Clute Dr. Gilchrist Charles Lane Reporter Edward McWade Gibbs Frank Capra: director Max Steiner: composer Leo F. Forbstein: musical director Hugo Friedhofer: orchestrator Film Statistics Stats Film duration: 1:57:54 Music duration: 04:39:38 Pages in score: 108 Total themes: 29 Themes with variants: 10 Total variants: 45 Total gestures: 7 Total underscoring sections: 11 Total underscoring duration: 19:03:45 Total instances: 125

Themes Name Uses Variants Here Comes the Bride 24 13 Happy Land 19 12 The Aunts 14 4 Scar 10 5 Jonathan 2 7 2 Home Sweet Home 4 2 Sidewalks of New York 4 4 Jonathan 3 1 Chromatic Fall 1 0 Funeral March 1 0 How Dry I Am 1 1 Knives 1 0 Molto Agitato 1 0 Mysterioso Pizzicato 1 0 Organ Stinger 1 0 Panic 1 0 Signature 1 0 Stinger 1 0 Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1 0 The Old Maid 1 0 The Victim 1 0 Transition 1 0 Other films borrowed from: Dust Be My Destiny (1939) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) The Old Maid (1939) Crime School (1938)

Combinations Name Uses Home Sweet Home + Scar 1 Source Music Name Uses Break the News to Mother 2 Bugle Call 2 Rondo Alla Turca 1 Symphony No. 5: I 1 Two by Two 1 When Johnny Comes Marching Home 1 Gestures Name Blows out match Chasing Hanging up Opens window Punching and falling Wind blowing Wind blowing 2

Underscoring Name Comical Dark Dramatic Mysterious Tense