Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)


Academy Awards, USA 1940

Nominee
Oscar
Best Effects, Special Effects
Roy Seawright (photographic)         

United Artists
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, VCI Entertainment)

The follow-up to Topper, minus Cary Grant, is more of the same. Ghost Constance Bennett tries to save the marriage of perennially confused Cosmo Topper, Roland Young and his batty wife Billie Burke. The whole entourage travels to the French Riviera where they originally honeymooned. Young gets the most laughs, with his physical comedy on display under the invisible influence of Bennett. The special effects are primitive at best and fail to convince. 

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