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Scared Stiff (1953)

NR 04/27/1953 Music, Comedy, Horror 1h 48m
64%
User
Score
6.3/10
71%

They're making a spook-tacle of themselves!

Overview

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...

George Marshall

Director

Herbert Baker

Screenplay

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Larry Todd

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

Myron Mertz

Lizabeth Scott

Lizabeth Scott

Mary Carroll

Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda

Carmelita Castinha

George Dolenz

George Dolenz

Mr. Cortega

Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone

Rosie

William Ching

William Ching

Tony Warren

Paul Marion

Paul Marion

Ramon Cariso / Francisco Cariso

Jack Lambert

Jack Lambert

Zombie

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Media

Scared Stiff - Martin and Lewis movie trailer

Scared Stiff - Martin and Lewis movie trailer

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on July 13, 2020

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 the...

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