this film be a case of the black stereotype bigotry of the time backfire on the maker of this movie . eddie ( rochester ) anderson a black driver set in what should have be a typical step n fetch it role quite literally stole this movie from the white cast . don not get me wrong the rest of the cast do a bang up job make this movie at once old sckool erie and creppy and dark yet a constant humor run so obviously down the middle of every scene that it refuse to be miss . it be just rochester do a great perfect job of breathe a real life and fun into his character that have dignity of a sort that the others lack . at time rochester become the straight man play to the back drop of his cast mat silliness . others get top billing a be the custom of that bigoted time but in this movie rochester rule baby . the movie start a cosmo topper a new york banker on his way to his vacation home be ambush by two lady fresh from a car wreck want a ride to their destination a creepy old mansion estate on a huanted hill overlook a tempest toss sea . cosmo topper kind man that he be at heart take the 2 lady and their suitcase in his smallish car . on their way to the old mansion strange woman upon his lap it just happen husband cosmo pass by his home where a stunned mr topper be there to see a young lady sit upon her husband lap another in the back seat . topper caught with a carload of lady do the only thing he can do which be speed on to his destination . now upset e gad for her topper do not even have the decency to return her wave a he ride past with a young lady on his lap mrs. topper remark later in scorn . this mrs. topper be not the same actress a star in the first topper movie and be not as good but be adequate . the first mr topper have a killer voice and comedic timing so weird she could not be duplicate . well a be typical in a topper movie the friend get kill and her ghost need closure with cosmo topper help to move on . only cosmo topper see and interacts with this ghost . the rich lady who be the real target of a scheming greedy man be still at risk of death by murder . the ghost of this now murder friend seek out her one true friend ( locally anyway ) cosmo topper . hey she do sit in cosmo lap after all sound chummy enough to me . the madcap escapades begin there and never end a the ghost lead poor compliant dullish but dutyful friend topper on one adventure after another follow up lead to her murder till the murderer be expose . the murderer be expose no thanks to keystone cop like local police . the real hoot be throughout the movie rochester see thing and door open and closing by themselves and people talk to nothing and gettin answer and extra set of footprint in freshly fall snow he can not account for insight he share with others even if he be ignore . rochester reveals he have a brain by in effect become this movie voice of reason and sanity a all about him seem just a bit crazy in some weird odd ball way . there be over worked cheap shot where rochester be play with by a seal but it do in a way that while demean be almost funny . all in all a good performance be do by all here . this third and final of the movie series while darker than the other topper movie be in many way the best in that it be killer funny while be enough of a mystery to keep you interested and focued on the murder plot . the absolute funnest scene come at the very end of the movie where the murderer be now a ghost and appolligises for drunking rochester into the water . sorry for drunking you into the water old man the murderer say . the response again while slightly demean be hallarious . this movie be a must for anyone who love comedy or want to see how racial stereotyping be use in mass medium to promote the brutish ignorant bigotry commonplace in the united state of the 1930 \1940 .