{"id":36624,"date":"2024-09-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36624"},"modified":"2024-09-07T20:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T00:07:26","slug":"36624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36624","title":{"rendered":"Scared Stiff (1953) starring Dean Martin &amp; Jerry Lewis \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z090824zview_scaredstiff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Scared Stiff<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1953)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>George Marshall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Herbert Baker, Walter DeLeon;<\/strong> based on <em>The Ghost Breaker<\/em> by<strong> Paul Dickey, Charles W. Goddard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis<\/strong><strong>, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda, Dorothy Malone, William Ching, Jack Lambert, Leonard Strong, Henry Brandon, Chester Clute, Earl Holliman, Frank Fontaine <\/strong>and <strong>Bing Crosby &amp; Bob Hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They&#8217;re making a spook-tacle of themselves!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mary Carroll (Scott) receives word that she has inherited an island estate.\u00a0 She also receives death threats and warnings that the place is haunted.\u00a0 Throwing caution to the wind Mary boards a ship to claim her inheritance.\u00a0 Joining Mary on the trip is nightclub singer, Larry Todd (Martin) and his buddy Myron Mertz (Lewis).<\/p>\n<p>They three arrive at Mary&#8217;s castle&#8230; cue the ghosts and zombies!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Scared Stiff<\/em> is based on the play <em>The Ghost Breaker<\/em>.\u00a0 It was previously adapted in the movie<em> The Ghost Breakers<\/em> starring Bob Hope.\u00a0 George Marshall directed both <em>Scared Stiff<\/em> and<em> The Ghost Breakers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scared Stiff<\/em> features Carmen Miranda&#8217;s last film appearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank Fontaine has an uncredited cameo as a drunk.\u00a0 I recognized him from his appearances as Crazy Guggenheim on <em>The Jackie Gleason Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Hope and Bing Crosby have an uncredited cameo.\u00a0 The previous year, Martin &amp; Lewis made an uncredited cameo in Hope &amp; Cosby&#8217;s <em>Road to Bali<\/em> film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Scared Stiff<\/em> is advertised as a comedy\/horror film.\u00a0 It takes forever to get to the horror aspect and then it&#8217;s not that funny.\u00a0 I prefer the Bob Hope version, <em>The Ghost Breakers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Scared Stiff<\/b><\/i> (1953)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z090824zview_scaredstiff2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scared Stiff (1953) Director: George Marshall Screenplay: Herbert Baker, Walter DeLeon; based on The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey, Charles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36702,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624\/revisions\/36702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}