Scared Stiff (1953)
They're making a spook-tacle of themselves!
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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Director
George Marshall
Cast
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 
Tony Barr
Trigger 
Leonard Strong
Shorty User Reviews (1)
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…
