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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Scared Stiff (1953)

They're making a spook-tacle of themselves!

★ 6.5/10 April 27, 1953 108 min

ComedyHorror

Director: George Marshall  ·  Writers: Herbert Baker, Walter DeLeon

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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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 Tom Powers Tom Powers Police Lieutenant Tony Barr Tony Barr Trigger Leonard Strong Leonard Strong Shorty

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John Chard
John Chard July 13, 2020
★ 7/10

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…