Saysexy Attempted Humor and Variety - October 25, 2002


Playboy: Sizzling Sex Stars (2002)

Topper Returns (1941)

Unusual among films in the "old dark house" style for being about a ghost who comes back to solve her own murder. Disguised as a Topper film, and with Roland Young and Billie Burke again cast as Mr and Mrs Topper, this is really a clever murder mystery in reverse, a sort of "why he done it". Praise must be lavished on the script, co-written by murder-mystery novelist Jonathan Latimer (who also wrote some of the better Peter Falk Columbo episodes in the 1970s) and on the playing of Young, Burke and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, who steal the film from headliners Carole Landis and Joan Blondell -- it is Topper's film after all. More inspired by the late Thorne Smith's characters than based on anything he wrote, the film nonetheless will appeal to fans of this extraordinary novelist's humorous works. A must for anyone who like horror send-ups, Topper or Smith!

Secrets about this couple you probably do not want to know.:

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His shoe size is large. She says it kills her when he tries putting his big feet in her small shoes. She says vaseline doesn't help. And she says after they make love she has trouble walking because of where he has stretched her shoes.

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She doesn't know it but when he first talked to her, he thought she was a dude in drag.

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He doesn't know it, but she made her fortune in condoms. She still has the fetish and likes to wear them.

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He made his fortune in cow manure. He doesn't know how or why that cow found and ate that huge diamond but he is forever grateful he stepped where it had.........

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I warned you these are secrets you probably didn't want to know. I just didn't say it was because they are so boring.