July 28 – Aug 3 Screwball Comedy: Just imagine, the Great Depression is raging and you’re getting less than a fin a week at the rubber boiling factory, but it only costs two bits to go to the movies all day, so let’s watch some quick-talking dames match wits with some dopey joes!

Based on the novel by Thorne Smith, Topper was a big deal and the first movie that Hal Roach Studios colorized when they decided to convert their black-and-white films to full color.

George and Marion Kerby (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett) are irresponsible rich kids who wreck their car and suddenly learn that they’ve died. They didn’t do enough good to go to Heaven, but are too nice to go to Hell. Their friend, Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), buys their roadster and ends up with them back in his life as ghosts, trying to make his boring life more exciting and helping him improve his marriage to his wife (Billie Burke).

Director Norman Z. McLeod would go on to make Horse Feathers, Pennies from Heaven, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the sequel to this, Topper Takes a Trip. There’s a third film, Topper Returns, which only has Cosmo Topper and is nearly a Giallo. Nom, seriously.

You can watch this on YouTube.