have watch the mildly amusing antic of the first topper movie and vaguely remember an enjoyment of the leo g. carroll television series and i be unprepared for how terrible this episode of the long running ghost story be . joan blondell a the ghost be constantly make wisecrack and none of which can be regard a witty . eddie rochester anderson be thoroughly waste in a role that be overtly racist . fall down a well not once and not twice but three time only to be inexplicably club by a seal and have to be one of the low point of his comic career . the murder mystery angle be worthy of a bad scooby doo episode . and the whole thing seem only barely tolerable a fodder for the mystery science theatre treatment .