Specialty CollectionGenre: 1940s FEATURE FILMS
Description: COMEDY FEATURE FILM JOAN BLONDELL, ROLAND YOUNG, BILLIE BURKE, EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON, DENNIS O'KEEFE, HB WARNER, GEORGE ZUCCO, CAROLE LANDIS. THE ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER BEFORE FILM, 3RD AND FINAL TOPPER FILM. THE FRAMED KERBY'S ARE NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. BUT THERE'S A NEW GHOSTLY PRESENCE HAUNTING OUR HERO IN THE SHAPELY FORM OF BLONDELL, WHO IS UNCEREMONIOUSLY DISPATCHED BY A CLOAKED KNIFE MURDERER SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING WITH HER GORGEOUS FRIEND LANDIS AT HER STATELY FAMILY CASTLE. IT SEEMS CAROLE HAS NOT SEEN HER FATHER SINCE CHILDHOOD AND SINCE SHE TURNS 21 THE FOLLOWING DAY SHE'S DUE TO COME INTO HER LATE MOTHER'S FORTUNE. JOAN SLEEPS IN CAROLES ROOM AND WINDS UP BEING THE SURPRISE VICTIM. NATURALLY JOAN FLOATS OVER TOPPERS QUIET ABODE AND NAGS COSMO INTO INVESTIGATING HER DEATH. BACK THEY COME TO THE SPOOKY SCENE OF THE CRIME, WHERE TOPPER IS ACUSED OF THE MURDER BY A HOUSE FULL OF CREEPS HEADED BY GHOULMASTER ZUCCO. AND WHO ELSE SHOULD BE THE LEAD DETECTIVE ON THE CASE BY DONALD MACBRIDE, THOROUGHLY BUNGLING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT ! ROCHESTER SHINES AS THE PUT UPON TOPPER ASSISTANT WHOSE NATURAL SUPERSTITIOUS NATURE IS RATTLED BY ALL THE BRILLIANT SPECIAL EFFECTS DEPICTING THE GHOSTLY COMINGS AND GOINGS. LAUGHS AND SUSPENSE. SCARED BLACK MAN.
