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DVD Topper/Topper Returns
A classic screwball comedy with a supernatural twist, Topper stars the incomparable Cary Grant and sparkling Constance Bennett as George and Marion Kirby, a fun-loving couple who cap an evening of jazz and champagne by running their car into a tree. They return as ghosts with a mandate to liven up the straight-laced hen-pecked life of bank president Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), who's hungry for just such a shake-up. Before long he's boozing, dancing, and getting into fights, all of which gives him a rakish reputation--much to the consternation of his wife (Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz). The sequel replaces Grant and Bennett with Joan Blondell, who can't quite compare, but she's charming in her own way. Topper Returns is a rambunctious murder mystery with some gorgeous sets and elegant cinematography--the sequence of Blondell's death and ghostly rise is dazzling. --Bret Fetzer
On my DVD player the first reel of Topper was jerky and headache-inducing. I was about to turn off the DVD when the jerking stopped.
I've checked the DVD on two different players. The problem occurs on both - though a bit more dramatically on the Grundig than on the Panasonic.
Please note that I'm viewing this on a Sony LCD tv.
Please note also that this review has nothing to do with the movies per se.
Ultimate classics!!!!!
Both movies are really good!With mystery and alot of humor.The first one is with Cary Grant and it is quite good,but the second one is actually better with the same "Cosmo Topper",in this it is more of a mystery and a little scary in a kind of funny way.When a gal gets murdered she goes to Topper for his help to solve the case! I love these movies where the cops are totally funny where they don't have a clue about what is going on! If you see one of the Topper movies you've got to see the next!
Things to do When You're Dead: 1. Have a Drink. 2. Solve a Murder...
3. Tease the hell out of the living.
A slightly unusual DVD release in that you get the first and third films in a series. TOPPER TAKES A TRIP is the direct sequal to TOPPER and is, as far as I know, currently unavailable on DVD. But the two films here act as a fascinating contrast. TOPPER is a typical, high-lit thirties farce where much of the humour arises out of the vacuity of the rich and the social aspirations of the middle-classes. TOPPER RETURNS, on the other hand, is a wild, self-referential satire on the old-dark house thriller (at one point, the delightful Eddie Anderson rues the fact he ever left Jack Benny). Both films are excellent examples of their type; but RETURNS has a playful inventiveness of a medium newly intoxicated with the possiblities presented by CITIZEN KANE, while the first film is an expertly played combination of slapstick and light, social comedy.
I found the DVD transfer perfectly acceptable. The sound seems to have been cleaned up, and the print sources are good. There are no extras; but considering you get two excellent films on one disc, asking for more seems churlish.
The intoxicating chemistry and repartee between the oft-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles--America's favorite soused detectives--is fully 100-proof in the marvelously witty Thin Man movies. You simply won't find more delightful movie company than Nick and Nora. The title, of course, refers not to Nicky the dick, but to the mysteriously missing scientist he and his lovely partner set out to find. Powell and Loy deliver their sparkling dialog with giddy enthusiasm (and occasionally slurred speech) in this rapid-fire, three-martini suspense comedy directed by famously speedy W.S. Van Dyke and adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett. The success of The Thin Man spawned a litter of sequels, including After the Thin Man (featuring a young James... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): William Powell - Myrna Loy Director(s): W.S. Van Dyke DVD Release Date: Released the 01 October 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Almost as welcome as a shaker full of martinis, The Complete Thin Man Collection represents an eagerly awaited DVD milestone for fans of the fizzy MGM movie series. The best film in the series came first: The Thin Man (1934), W.S. Van Dyke's marvelous adaptation of a Dashiell Hammet novel. The movie gods were in a generous mood when they paired William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, the upper-class sophisticates whose sleuthing escapades somehow joined the classic form of the whodunit with the giddyup of screwball comedy. Among the series' many attributes, one of its most radical notions was the idea that a married couple might find each other delightful and view life as a goofy adventure together.
It is common wisdom that the Thin Man sequels... More Info about this DVD Director(s): W.S. Van Dyke DVD Release Date: Released the 02 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Joseph Mankiewicz's moody classic is less ghost story than romantic fantasy, a handsome 1947 drama of impossible love set on the picturesque turn-of-the-century New England coast. Independent young widow Lucy Muir (the luminous Gene Tierney), desperate to escape her uptight in-laws, falls in love with a grand seaside house and moves in, only to discover the cantankerous ghost of the hot-tempered Captain Gregg (a histrionically flamboyant performance by Rex Harrison). Lucy refuses to let the bombastic captain frighten her away, earning his respect, his friendship, and later his love. They team up to turn the captain's salty memoirs into a bestseller, but as his affection grows he fades away, leaving Lucy free to undertake a more worldly suitor, notably a charismatic children's author... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Joseph L. Mankiewicz DVD Release Date: Released the 01 April 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Frank Capra made this film in 1941 before he went off to make films for America's war effort, but it wasn't released until 1944. Adapted from the hit play by Joseph Kesselring, this frantic black comedy shows Capra at his best as a master of mood and timing. Actresses Josephine Hull and Jean Adair reprise their Broadway performances as two gentle old ladies who poison men with elderberry wine to put them out of their misery. Cary Grant plays one nephew, a normal guy who just gets wind of their little hobby and tries to get them to stop, while Raymond Massey plays another, a villain just escaped from jail. Capra encourages the cast, especially Grant, to give a somewhat more outsized performance than one might expect. But made during the war years as it was, this overstated comic approach... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Frank Capra DVD Release Date: Released the 29 August 2000 Usually ships in 7 to 11 days
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Recreating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under... More Info about this DVD Director(s): George Cukor DVD Release Date: Released the 02 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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