Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301231763
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301231767
Label: Video Treasures
Manufacturer: Video Treasures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Video Treasures
Release Date: 1987-12-01
Running Time: 80
Studio: Video Treasures
Theatrical Release Date: 1939-01-12

Customer Rating:
Summary: Topper Trip
Comment: If you haven't experienced the Topper movie trio, you just must. We all love them!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Topper Takes a Trip
Comment: TOPPER TAKES A TRIP is almost the equal of the original film, "TOPPER." It lacks the presence of Cary Grant as Constance Bennett's partner as George & Marion Kerby and their ectoplasmic adventures; (Grant makes only a cameo appearance).

The script follows Thorne Smith's book fairly faithfully, except the glaring absence of Mr. Kerby. However it is clever and funny and keeps the clever interplay between the bewildered Cosmo Topper, played to perfection by Roland Young and his companion, Marion Kerby played by Constance Bennett. Good fun and very entertaining.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The weak link in the trilogy
Comment: There are three classic Topper films from the golden age of movies. The first, with Cary Grant, is a winner. The third, with Joan Blondell, is even better. But Topper Takes A Trip, the second in the series, is a complete dud. The script is simply embarrassing and wholly unfunny. The scenes (e.g. the bartender and the dog)are often pathetic. It took some doing to make a flop with the likes of the stars in this film. Even Franklin Pangborn is awful. But reading lines like that, how could he be otherwise? Best forgotten.

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Customer Rating:
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.

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Customer Rating:
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.

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