Image problems

I've read the reviews here praising the transfer of topper, and I'm not sure why my experience differs so greatly - I watch my films on a computer, which may have impacted it - but the closed captioning turned on and off erattically and in an uncontrollable manner, slowing up the data stream from the DVD and making it choppy. The image itself was clearly fuzzy with age and missing or brutalized frames weren't massaged digitally at all, as far as I could tell. Ten dollars isn't too much to pay for my favorite Cary Grant comedy, by any means, and I'm glad I have it, but when I get my home entertainment center in order, I surely hope to find these reviews to be true, because my experience with this disk was that it was as sloppy as many of those Image DVD's that came out right after the format was invented, and I felt it was misleading to release this disk with the gold banners and all the marketing trappings of some kind of special edition, when so much was messy.

Topper/Topper Returns

The DVD is a combination of two of the Topper seires of films. The original film, "TOPPER" is an excellent film, starring Cary Grant & Constance Bennett as the Kerbys, whose wild ways lead to their untimely demise and subsequent appearance as ectoplasmic madcaps to Cosmo Topper, played perfectly by Roland Young. The script follows Thorne Smith's book in it's hilarious journey to free the timid Mr.Topper from his wife's domineering control. Billie Burke eschews the role perfectly. The special effects were a marvel for the film's time, and add to the viewer's enjoyment of this classic story.

"TOPPER RETURNS" is not such a charming film as the original. Roland Young, Constance Bennett & Billie Burke appear once more in their original roles, but the script is far too silly and lacking in the clever situations and charm of the original. Eddie "Rochester" Amderson from the Jack Benny radio show is an addition for slapstick comedy. A murder mystery is the used as the spine of the story, and the film becomes not a clever advnture for Topper and his ghostly adventures, but rather a somewhat tiresome and predictable 'B' movie vehicle for the stars. Cary Grant is seen briefly and is sorely missed.

Great Entertainment

Great movies,it turns out that there are 2 movies for the price of one. Movies were completely amusing and entertaining