...was eminently forgettable, almost a direct steal from Turnabout (as a short one-reeler) but with a surreal twist in that evidently personalities and voices were changed, as well as everyone's anomalous memories of the married couple, but without any physical transformation whatsoever.

Turnabout is okay as a film, but much better in the original.

Of the Topper series, the first Topper was the best, and Smith's writing is a treat almost without reservation. I have pretty much all of them, in several editions, including electronic versions.

The only dud in the bunch is the last, The Passionate Witch which was published posthumously with more than half of it ‘completed’ by a hack. It does start out nicely, though, before it falls apart.

My favourite line from the stories is the classic Thorne Smith quip, ‘One's company, three's a crowd, but four makes a vice ring.’

Truer words were never spoken, at least in Thorne Smith's whimsiccal world.