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Scared Stiff
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...
- Original title
- Scared Stiff
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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John Chard
Jul 13, 2020 · via TMDB
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 that have a kink for such shenanigans. From a ventriloquist dummy skit to Lewis' delightful take on Miranda, and containing an hilarious sequence with Jerry stuck in a trunk, there's enough guffaws to keep the grin on ones face. Fans of the singing side of Deano are however short changed here, and there is no getting away from the fact that Scared Stiff is ultimately a rushed cash in job. So with that in mind newcomers to the pair are advised to possibly give the film a miss and head for the likes of Artists And Models and Hollywood or Bust instead. 7/10
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Dean Martin
Larry Todd
Jerry Lewis
Myron Mertz
Lizabeth Scott
Mary Carroll
Carmen Miranda
Carmelita Castinha
George Dolenz
Mr. Cortega
Dorothy Malone
Rosie
William Ching
Tony Warren
Paul Marion
Ramon Cariso / Francisco Cariso
Jack Lambert
Zombie
Tom Powers
Police Lieutenant
Leonard Strong
Shorty
Henry Brandon
Pierre
Hugh Sanders
Cop on Pier
Bess Flowers
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Fred Aldrich
Dockworker (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Man with Spaghetti (uncredited)
Bing Crosby
Skeleton (uncredited)
Earl Holliman
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Bob Hope
Skeleton (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jane Novak
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Billy Daniel
Dancer (uncredited)
Percy Helton
Man in Hotel Hallway (uncredited)
Lyle Latell
Ship Captain (uncredited)
Manuel París
Cuban Headwaiter (uncredited)
Dick Winslow
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Ernö Verebes
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
Man in Hotel Hallway (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgway
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Charles Evans
Man Next to Spaghetti Customer (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Passerby (uncredited)
Jesslyn Fax
Woman in Hotel Hallway (uncredited)
Frank Fontaine
Drunk on Pier (uncredited)
Richard Karlan
Gangster (uncredited)
Nolan Leary
Policeman (uncredited)
Wilbur Mack
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Alphonse Martell
Maitre D' (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Belle Mitchell
Zombie's Mother (uncredited)
Franz Bachelin
Art Direction
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Ernest Laszlo
Director of Photography
Edith Head
Costume Design
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
Norman Lear
Additional Dialogue
Billy Daniel
Choreographer
George Marshall
Director
Hal B. Wallis
Producer
Joseph J. Lilley
Music Director
Leith Stevens
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Herbert Baker
Screenplay
Paul Dickey
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