Topper Returns (1941)

TOPPER RETURNS  (1941)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Roy Del Ruth
    Roland Young, Joan Blondell, Carole Landis,
    Billie Burke, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly,
    George Zucco, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
A comic mystery with Roland Young again playing Cosmo Topper, the staid, straight-laced banker bedeviled by spirits. Joan Blondell's a newly minted ghost who enlists Topper's help to find out who done her in. It's the third entry in the series, and George and Marian Kirby, the ghosts played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett in the original "Topper" film, aren't around anymore. The movie kind of misses their spectral presence, but it's not bad, with enough suspicious characters to keep you guessing about who stuck a knife in poor Joan.