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Scared Stiff

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Wallis-Hazen Inc.

United States of America

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Dean Martin

Jerry Lewis

Lizabeth Scott

Carmen Miranda

George Dolenz

Dorothy Malone

William Ching

Paul Marion

Jack Lambert

Tony Barr

Leonard Strong

Henry Brandon

Hugh Sanders

Bess Flowers

Fred Aldrich

Gertrude Astor

Chester Clute

Bing Crosby

Joe Gray

Earl Holliman

Bob Hope

Kenner G. Kemp

Harold Miller

Jane Novak

Billy Daniel

Percy Helton

Tom Coleman

Herschel Graham

Lyle Latell

Manuel París

Dick Winslow

Ernö Verebes

Cosmo Sardo

Ric Roman

Suzanne Ridgway

Waclaw Rekwart

Tom Powers

Danny Arnold

Frank Branda

Jimmie Dundee

Charles Evans

Franklyn Farnum

Charles Flynn

Jesslyn Fax

Frank Fontaine

Herb Golden

Sam Harris

Richard Karlan

Nolan Leary

Jack Low

Wilbur Mack

Alphonse Martell

Thomas Martin

David O. McCall

Frank McLure

Belle Mitchell

Robin Morse

Murray Pollack

José Portugal

George Marshall

Hal B. Wallis

Leith Stevens

Ernest Laszlo

Warren Low

Herbert Baker

Walter DeLeon

Ed Simmons

Norman Lear

Paul Dickey

Charles W. Goddard

Hal Pereira

Franz Bachelin

Gordon Jennings

Paul K. Lerpae

Sam Comer

Ross Dowd

Edith Head

Charles C. Coleman

Wally Westmore

Hugo Grenzbach

Walter Oberst

Joseph J. Lilley

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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