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Scared Stiff (also known as Treasure of Fear (American television title) and You'll Be The Death Of Me Yet) is a 1945 American comedic murder mystery directed by Frank McDonald for Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures.
Scared Stiff: Directed by Frank McDonald. With Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg. The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.
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- Mystery, Comedy
- Frank McDonald
- 1945-06-22
Scared Stiff (also known as Treasure of Fear (American television title) and You'll Be The Death Of Me Yet) is a 1945 American comedic murder mystery directed by Frank McDonald for Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures.
Scared Stiff. The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film.
Scared Stiff is a 1945 comedic whodunnit in which a bumbling newspaper chess reporter (was there ever such a thing in real life?) finds himself entangled in a murder plot with a jeweled set of chess pieces as the McGuffin.
- Frank Mcdonald
- Paramount Pictures, Pine-Thomas Productions
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Accident-prone busboy Myron Mertz (Jerry Lewis) and his suave nightclub-crooner pal, Larry Todd (Dean Martin), get caught up in both a gangland slaying and a mystery involving the comely Mary...
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- Musical, Comedy
