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Scared Stiff is the 1953 remake of the 1940 Bob Hope-Paulette Goddard vehicle The Ghost Breakers, reupholstered for the talents of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. While Martin handles the straight plot scenes, just as Hope did in the earlier film, the Hope-like wisecracks are fairly evenly divided between Martin and Lewis. Lewis is for the most part relegated to the secondary role played by black comedian Willie Best in Ghost Breakers, with a few opportunities for his manic specialties: his
Oct 25, 2005
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Martin and Lewis fans, rejoice!
One of Lewis and Mertin's more seldom seen films, and one of their best. Cameos abound in this film.
March 13, 2011
How the hell would anyone think Jerry Lewis is funny? This is a terrible re-make of The Ghost Breakers. (And the original didn't have pointless singing in it.) The only funny parts are those directly copied from the original. Oh, now I know who Carmen Miranda is.
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