Pickles the cat, accompanying and watching Professor Dorr's "ensemble" in "The Ladykillers", like the cat in "The Comedy of Terrors" the undertakers (Vincent Price & Peter Lorre).
When Basil Rathbone hears an intruder (Peter Lorre) in his home, he gets up to investigate and grabs a sword. While investigating, he makes one swing at a candelabra cutting all of the candles in half. He does the same thing in his duel with Danny Kaye in The Court Jester
