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Title: Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith, Carolyn See ISBN: 0-375-75307-9 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 28 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: DELIGHTFUL SEQUEL.
Comment: This follow-up to the highly successful TOPPER - which was made earlier that year (1939) - picks up where the last film left off. After reestablishing the auto accident which killed the drunken Bennett and Grant in the first film and turned them into ghosts, we are treated (sans Cary Grant) to a hilarious 85 minutes. Clara Topper (Burke) spots Marion Kirby (Bennett) in her husband Cosmo's room. Clara goes to Paris - with Cosmo following - in order to get a divorce because she believes her hen-pecked husband has been seeing another "woman". Unable to explain to Clara that Marion is only a ghost, Cosmo tries to fast-talk Burke into a reconciliaton. Several floating martinis later, Bennett manages to reconcile the couple, and is now able to join her husband in their celestial home. The trick photography by Roy Seawright is astonishing for its day. Cushions which deflate when invisible figures sit on them, cigarettes being smoked in mid-air and pencils writing notes by themselves are all executed with great skill. The sight of the Kirby's dog Skippy - also a ghost - is hilarious when only his tail fails to become invisible or when he bites the ankles of totally flabbergasted men! A third film, TOPPER RETURNS is a surprisingly pleasant diversion from 1941: it stars Joan Blondell as Marion Kirby.
Rating: 5
Summary: Comedy at its best
Comment: Topper movies have been some of the best clean cut comedy ever. These are the types of movies you can watch over and over and still continue to laugh. More comedy movies of today should be made this way. I know there are "Topper" lovers as myself and would enjoy being able to see them on the American Movie Classic channel or just on regular tv from time to time. The only move I own is Topper Returns and would love to have these others. I grew up watching these movies and will continue to watch them. Please bring them back.
Rating: 5
Summary: greatfamilyfilm
Comment: it would do all of us good if more movies were being made today that can make us laugh just by it being funny not by it being an effort to hurt or humiliate a person place or thing. maybe someone someday will look again at these old classics and see how refreshing it was to be entertained not by seeing people or places blowing up or being destroyd but just being allowed to sit back relax and enjoy the fact that what your watching can entertain you your grandmother and your kids all at the same time.
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Title: Topper by Thorne Smith, Carolyn See ISBN: 0375753052 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Night Life of the Gods by Carolyn See, Thorne Smith ISBN: 0375753060 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 28 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:Topper/Topper Returns ASIN: B00008ZZ7B Publisher: Artisan Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.73 |
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Title: RAIN IN THE DOORWAY by Thorne Smith ISBN: 0345287274 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 August, 1980 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: THE STRAY LAMB by Thorne Smith ISBN: 034528724X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 July, 1980 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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