They're making a spook-tacle of themselves!
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
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Comic, classical in form, effortless and unpretentious.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jul 20207/10
It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. Larry Todd (Dean Martin), and Myron Mertz (Jerry Lewis) run a foul of gangster "Shorty" and are forced to flee the hotel when suspicion of murder falls on Larry. Hooking up with heiress Mary Carroll (Lizabeth Scott) who is sailing for Cuba, the guys find that Cuba is one mysterious place, full of weird goings on and Zombies! Scared Stiff was Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' ninth picture, a remake of Paramount's 1940 comedy spooker, The Ghost Breakers that starred Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, it's also directed by the same man, George Marshall. Though both Lewis and Martin are on record as saying they didn't want to remake The Ghost Breakers since the Hope movie was fine the way it is. The guys were bound to do it by their Paramount contract, and thus producer Hal B. Wallis, rightly assuming that it was viable material for the duo, got the film made. In the pantheon of Martin/Lewis films, Scared Stiff ranks as one of the better efforts that the guys did. Larks and songs and a Carmen Miranda cameo make up the main body of Scared Stiff. Standard slap-stick to none fans of the intrepid duo, but essential viewing for those
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Cast
- Dean MartinLarry Todd
- Jerry LewisMyron Mertz
- Lizabeth ScottMary Carroll
- Carmen MirandaCarmelita Castinha
- George DolenzMr. Cortega
- Dorothy MaloneRosie
- William ChingTony Warren
- Paul MarionRamon Cariso / Francisco Cariso
- Jack LambertZombie
- Tom PowersPolice Lieutenant
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- George MarshallDirector
- Herbert BakerScreenplay
- Walter DeLeonScreenplay
- Ernest LaszloDirector of Photography
- Leith StevensOriginal Music Composer
- Warren LowEditor
- Hal B. WallisProducer
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