Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) -

as Jonathan: Replaced Boris Karloff, who was not released from his stage contract for the film.

The story follows (Cary Grant), a drama critic and famous bachelor who finally gets married on Halloween. When he returns to his family’s ancestral Brooklyn home to tell his aunts—the sweet and seemingly charitable Abby and Martha —the news, he makes a grisly discovery: a dead body hidden in the window seat. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

as Abby and Martha: Both actresses reprised their roles from the smash-hit Broadway play. as Jonathan: Replaced Boris Karloff, who was not

as Mortimer Brewster: Grant famously disliked his own performance, calling it "over-acting," though critics often cite it as a masterclass in physical comedy. as Abby and Martha: Both actresses reprised their

: Based on the 1939 play by Joseph Kesselring, the film retains a fast-talking, door-slamming energy that keeps the 118-minute runtime moving at a breakneck pace.