| Scared Stiff | |
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| Directed by | George Marshall |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | The Ghost Breaker 1909 play by Paul Dickey Charles W. Goddard |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Edited by | Warren Low |
| Music by | Leith Stevens |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.5 million (US)[1] 811,256 admissions (France)[2] |
Scared Stiff is a 1953 American supernatural fiction-themed comedy horror semi-musical film, directed by George Marshall and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. One of the 17 films made by the Martin and Lewis team, it was released on April 27, 1953 by Paramount Pictures. It is the fourth screen adaptation of the 1909 play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, previously filmed under that title in 1914 and 1922 and as The Ghost Breakers in 1940, also directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope.
Scared Stiff was Carmen Miranda's final film appearance, as she died two years later in August 1955.
- ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1953", Variety, January 13, 1954.
- ^ Box office information for film in France at Box Office Story