Post by claudius on May 3, 2017 9:06:07 GMT
Considering I went to the trouble of programming my VCR to record it, I felt it a worthy picture. I also like the 'murder in a dark mansion' genre.
TOPPER RETURNS, the last of the films, is pretty good. Joan Blondell plays the wise-cracking friend of a heiress (Carole Landis) of a dark mansion who gets murdered in her place and gets the help of Topper, not to mention his household (Billie Burke's wife, Eddie Anderson's black valet, and Patsy Kelly's housekeeper) to solve the case. Billie Burke returns as the ditsy wife (she phones the police: "Oh yes, there's been a murder. Yes. Capital M-u-r-d-e-r. Murder.").
TOPPER RETURNS, the last of the films, is pretty good. Joan Blondell plays the wise-cracking friend of a heiress (Carole Landis) of a dark mansion who gets murdered in her place and gets the help of Topper, not to mention his household (Billie Burke's wife, Eddie Anderson's black valet, and Patsy Kelly's housekeeper) to solve the case. Billie Burke returns as the ditsy wife (she phones the police: "Oh yes, there's been a murder. Yes. Capital M-u-r-d-e-r. Murder.").