Black and white movie, 2 old sisters bury boidies in basement

Arsenic and Old Lace.

But Teddy Roosevelt wasn’t buried down there.

One of the brothers thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.

It's a brilliant film btw.

Oh! You’re right. I’d forgotten about that. Didn’t he keep charging up San Juan Hill, aka the stairs?

Yes he did, and he helped them bury the bodies because they told him they were cholera victims.

Another great film from that time was Harvey.

Jimmy Stewart and the pooka, the 6 foot rabbit.

They did a remake of that years later with Stewat when he was older. It was great because it was the same dialogue but now every assunmed he say the pooka because he was old and senile, and not a crazy drunk.

Now I’m going to have to watch it again.

Harvey's good too. The actress who plays Jimmy Stewart's sister is brilliant, her performance is often overlooked, but I think she makes the film.

Sorry I think it may be scarlet fever, not cholera, but the result was the same.

Yellow fever, I thought. Common in Cuba at the time of Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill, and a convincing story to tell the crazy Teddy.

One of the great advances of the modern era is that Wikipedia means you never have to watch a movie or TV series again.

And the trumpet was brilliant, love that movie.

Vat kind boidies dem babushka bory?? Mebbe Cheekn??

I seen that on the tee-vees when I was a kid.

One of the excellent live theater programs in the 1950s--Alcoa Theater, Playhouse 90, Omnibus, one of those--did that play, and did it well. My great-aunt, my grandmother's sister, who was born in 1889, ran a boarding house. I went around there for weeks to see if all the old codgers who lodged there were still around. Then my grandfather figured out what I was up to, and read me the riot act.

La Folle de Chaillot was done as a filum in 1969, as The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katherine Hepburn, Yul Brynner, Donald Pleasance and several other good actors. When I saw it up on the big screen, it immediately recalled that live television version of Arsenic and Old Lace to my mind.

They would stash the recently dead in a large window box until Teddy could manage to fit them in his construction ditch for the Panama Canal whcih was conveniently co-located in the basement.

I loved Cary Grants reaction to finding the old gent in the window box.