Scared stiff, he roared at everyone to get back to work.
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He was 20 years old and "scared stiff," he tells CNBC.
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"I was scared stiff of double-height windows," Ms. Shinar said.
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Scared stiff, she sat up front next to the driver, a convicted murderer.
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I was scared stiff that they would beat me, but of course they didn't.
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As it turns out, there are many possible reasons some people like to be scared stiff.
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" Trump said on Twitter that month that the attorney general was "scared stiff and Missing In Action.
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As it is now, the GOP should be scared stiff after losing a supposedly rock solid Senate seat.
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"They're scared stiff right now," she added, noting oil prices and the possibility of inverting the yield curve are probably concerns.
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He's scared stiff of us, and for good reason, because every time he hit us, we hit back twice as hard.
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When he was found at the Montgomery County recycling plant by employee Mark Wheeler, he was scared stiff and the victim of an uncertain past.
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Some were remakes of Paramount properties — Bob Hope's 1940 hit "The Ghost Breakers," for example, became "Scared Stiff" (1953) — while other projects were more adventurous.
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August 2018: Sessions 'scared stiff and Missing in Action' Trump has repeatedly slammed Sessions over several Justice Department officials who have drawn intense scrutiny on the right.
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The concern I have is that he's making such a mockery out of the people and seniors and everybody by getting them scared stiff of what he can do.
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" Earlier this month, Trump escalated his criticism of the nation's top law enforcement officer when he said in a tweet that Sessions is "scared stiff and Missing in Action.
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Trump has lobbed criticism at many involved with the investigation, including his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who he declared "scared stiff" and "missing in action" in a weekend tweet.
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Mr. Trump relentlessly attacked Mr. Sessions both in public and in private, calling him "scared stiff" and his leadership "a total joke," among other insults, ultimately forcing him to resign.
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" Mr. Smith said he helped cover up the body and clean "the mess" because he was "scared stiff" and wanted only to get out of the house "in one piece.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called Attorney General Jeff Sessions "scared stiff and Missing in Action" on Saturday in his latest broadside on Twitter against the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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"It was lovely to get that old feeling back of when you're standing at the top of the jump and you're scared stiff and you gotta go down and try to land," he says.
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That prestigious museum show helped underpin the $15 million price tag on Guston's seven-foot-wide figurative canvas, "Scared Stiff," from 110.53, which features one of the artist's trademark hooded figures and was among Hauser & Wirth's first-day sales.
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The president tweeted just last week that his own attorney general was "scared stiff" due to his unwillingness to step in to stop the probe, which is examining whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow's election interference efforts in 2016.
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump escalated his attacks on Saturday against his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, describing him as "scared stiff" by an issue related to the Russia investigation that the president has privately railed to his aides has received insufficient news coverage.
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Scared stiff by Turkey's authoritarian and growth-obsessed president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country's central bank has done little to help, preferring to make cosmetic adjustments to its byzantine system of lending rates, instead of the decisive increase needed to bring inflation under control.
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"Americans overwhelmingly support an independent commission to investigate the growing scandal surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia — and that should have every Republican up for election in 2018 scared stiff," said Jessica Mackler, the president of the liberal super PAC American Bridge, which commissioned the poll.
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Instead, many of them saw the diminished attorney general who had been harangued, humiliated and belittled by Mr. Trump, who attacked Mr. Sessions as "scared stiff" and "Missing in Action" and told NBC News that appointing him was his "biggest mistake" he had made as president.
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On August 11, Trump called Sessions "scared stiff and Missing in Action" and claimed the news media "refuses to report" on meetings held between Christopher Steele, the ex-British intelligence officer who authored an opposition research dossier on Trump, and former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr.
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President Trump on Saturday blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions for being "scared stiff and Missing in Action" in a tweet series questioning if there will be an Inspector General report about the Steele dossier, Steele's meetings with former Deputy Attorney General, Bruce Ohr and Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr.
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Given the choice between a ticket led by Trump or Cruz that would probably be a political suicide mission for the GOP or a Plan C ticket creating a viable chance of victory for the Republican Party, like most Democrats I am fervently praying for the former and scared stiff about the possibility of the latter!
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That instantly earned him the enmity of the president, who was soon bashing Sessions both privately (complaining to White House aides, according to Bob Woodward's book "Fear," that Sessions was "mentally retarded" and a "dumb Southerner") and publicly (tweeting to his tens of millions of followers that "Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action").
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" Trump wants a top law enforcement official — his attorney general — to be far more sympathetic to his views on laws and loyalty, a dynamic that also played out again yesterday: Trump, who tweeted earlier this month that Sessions was "scared stiff and Missing in Action," denigrated the job of attorney general — traditionally independent — in yesterday's Fox interview: "You know the only reason I gave him the job?
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE ratcheted up his attacks on Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE on Saturday, tweeting that Sessions was "scared stiff" and "Missing in Action" in defending him amid special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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It is used to collect unique features and start special modes. Scared Stiff uses the DCS Sound System. Scared Stiff was exhibited at the 1996 AMOA show in Dallas, with Cassandra Peterson present in her Elvira identity to promote the game. When Scared Stiff was introduced in 1996, it was designed to have moving rubber boogieman figures mounted over the slingshots.
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Scared Stiff was available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms until June 30th 2018.
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Bowman, Lisa Marie. "The Fabulous Forties #13: Scared Stiff." Though the Shattered Lens, April 13, 2016. Retrieved: May 19, 2016.
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Scared Stiff (also known as Treasure of Fear (American reissue 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. The film stars Jack Haley, Ann Savage and Barton MacLane."Overview: 'Scared Stiff' (1945)." Turner Classic Movies.
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Scared Stiff was released as a B-movie, hampered by its low production values. Ann Savage's biographers Lisa Morton and Kent Adamson relegated Scared stiff to merely "lackluster" and "forgettable".Morton and Adamson 2009, pp. 124–125. The production team of William H. Pine and William C. Thomas, known in the industry as the "Two Dollar Bills", reissued the film as Treasure of Fear, to little better fortune.
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Jumping Jacks was re-released on a double bill with another Martin and Lewis film, Sailor Beware in 1957 and on another double bill with Scared Stiff in 1958.
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Paramount released Scared Stiff on home video in November 1992. The film was included on an eight-film DVD set, the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Collection: Volume One, released on October 31, 2006.
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Principal photography under the working title of You'll Be the Death of Me Yet on the production began in early November 1944."Original print information: 'Scared Stiff' (1945)." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: May 19, 2016.
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The two falls in love and decide to marry. Scared stiff, Kanniyappan manages to get Chandran dismissed from his job. Chandran grandmother Kamatchi (S. R. Janaki) gives him magic armour which will make him tough and bold.
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Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring horrorshow-hostess Elvira. It was followed 1996 by Scared Stiff, also designed by Nordman.
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Scared Stiff is a 1996 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring horror show-hostess Elvira. It is the follow-up to 1989's Elvira and the Party Monsters, also designed by Nordman.
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4 Later that spring, Scott returned to her beginnings as a comedian when she began work on her first comedy noir, Scared Stiff, with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Scott played an heiress who inherits a haunted castle on Lost Island off the coast of Cuba. AFI (accessed May 23, 2014), Scared Stiff, Catalog of Feature Films Though Scott had fond memories of working on the set in the years ahead,Carole Langer (Soapbox & Praeses Productions, 1996; accessed May 23, 2014), Lizabeth Scott 1996 Interview Part 4 of 8 at the time of filming, she found it trying.
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Scared Stiff is a 1953 American horror paranormal semi-musical comedy 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. Scared Stiff was Carmen Miranda's final film appearance, as she died two years later in August 1955.
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Martin and Lewis cameoed in their film Road to Bali (1952), then Hope and Crosby would do the same in Scared Stiff a year later. Attesting to the duo's popularity, DC Comics published The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from 1952 to 1957.
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A 1922 remake of the same name starred Wallace Reid and Lila Lee. The original film was also remade as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and as Scared Stiff (1953) with Martin and Lewis. The film is now considered lost.
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Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of meeting up with a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the man's apartment, and she discovers that he left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her.
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The 2nd annual show at the Seattle Center was held June 12–14, 2009. The show was expanded with the addition of a second room filled with classic arcade video games, and the combined total of arcade and pinball machines reached 250. Guest speakers included game designer Dennis Nordman (Scared Stiff, White Water, Demolition Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Wheel of Fortune), game artist and sound creator Greg Freres (Medieval Madness, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Revenge from Mars, Scared Stiff), music and sound designer Brian Schmidt, star of the documentary movie High Score, Bill Carlton, and Clay Harrell from This Old Pinball. Steve Wiebe returned, but instead of speaking, he made his 6th public attempt to reclaim the world high score on Donkey Kong.
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"Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 250.. The Ghost Breaker would be remade in the sound era as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and later as Scared Stiff (1953) starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Arthur Edmund Carewe, Lila Lee and Wallace Reid in a scene.
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He confided to Dawn; "I'm scared stiff we'll all go soft because of further casualties and not hammer the Jap flat. We lose them in this war and the next will be the kids".Edgar (1999), p. 261 In April at last the Brigade was posted overseas, initially to Lae in New Guinea Territory, then to the Wau area.
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In 1944, the partnership signed Jack Haley to a multi- picture contract.Glenn Langan Awarded 'Bon Voyage' Male Lead Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 23 Aug 1944: A7. This meant the company moved into comedies for the first time with Take It Big (1944), followed by One Body Too Many (1944) with Bela Lugosi, Scared Stiff (1945) and People Are Funny (1946).
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When she turned the part down, Martin asked for Dorothy Malone, his other love interest from Scared Stiff. The cast is filled with cameos by many Martin and Lewis regulars. Eddie Mayehoff made his cinematic debut in That's My Boy and co-starred in The Stooge. Kathleen Freeman also appeared in 3 Ring Circus, along with a number of Lewis' solo films.
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She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted : "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro.
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Castro 2005, p. 444 In her final film, Scared Stiff (1953, a black- and-white Paramount production with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis), Miranda's appeal was again muted. Returning full-circle to her first Hollywood film, Down Argentine Way, she had virtually no narrative function. Lewis parodies her, miming badly to "Mamãe Eu Quero" (which is playing on a scratched record) and eating a banana he plucks from his turban.
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In the dressing room, Kippax commented of Larwood, "he's too bloody fast for me". Omitted from the remainder of the series, Kippax became the first of several Australian batting "casualties" during the summer. While most sympathised with his misfortune, and attributed his lack of confidence to the blows he received the previous season,Robinson (1985), p 57. Larwood was more succinct: "Kippax was scared stiff and he let you see it".
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Finally, the moment comes where Ferdinand comes out and he wonders what is he doing there. The banderilleros and picadors are afraid and hide, but the matador gets scared stiff because Ferdinand is so big and strong. Ferdinand looks and sees the bouquet of flowers, walking over and scaring the matador away, but just starts smelling them. The matador becomes very angry at Ferdinand for not charging at him.
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Profile, torinofilmfest.org; accessed August 5, 2015. He wrote Dream Wife (1953) with Sidney Sheldon for Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, as well as several films for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis such as Jumping Jacks (1951), Scared Stiff (1953), and Artists and Models (1955). The latter film was directed and co-written by Frank Tashlin, with whom Baker worked again on The Girl Can't Help It. Baker kept writing songs, including new ones for Rose Marie (1954).
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Many toys were made by Schaper to go along with the series. The action figures were very good likenesses to their cartoon counterparts and included a small comic with each figure which was a shortened version of the first five episodes of the show. The series of figures included Jake, Eddie, Tracy, Belfry, Futura, Jessica, Brat-A-Rat, Prime Evil, Haunter, Scared Stiff, Mysteria, Fib Face and Fangster. Jake came with a removable backpack and Dematerializer.
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Her first book, "Murder At Grand Bay," (published in 1955) was written for an adult market. She won Edgar Allan Poe Awards ("Edgars") in 1989, 1995, and 1997 for best juvenile and best young adult mysteries. Her books included The View from the Cherry Tree, Twisted Summer, Sugar Isn't Everything, Don't Hurt Laurie, Megan's Island, Baby- Sitting Is a Dangerous Job, Hostage, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, The One Left Behind, Scared Stiff, Caught!, and Undercurrents.
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Many of the IUMMSW Auxiliaries were as long-lived as their male companion unions. Notably, the women took active roles in organizing not only the Auxiliaries but also the male locals. As one of the original Auxiliary members offers this compelling account of her organizing work: > You go ahead and you do it hey, but you are scared stiff. I was! I didn’t > think anybody would want to kill us because we were trying to organize > miners, it seemed incredible.
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According to Lewis, both he and Martin were against making the picture, as they found the original to be satisfactory. However, because the film was a Paramount property that producer Hal B. Wallis felt was one that could be successful in the comedy team's hands, he held the two to their contract for the film. Scared Stiff was filmed from June 2 through July 17, 1952. It was the first film of the team's available in 3-track, stereophonic sound.
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Back at Paramount he did The Savage (1952) with Charlton Heston, Off Limits (1953) with Hope and Mickey Rooney, and Scared Stiff (1953) with Martin and Lewis (remaking his earlier Ghost Breakers) . He did a biopic, Houdini (1953) with Tony Curtis, then Money from Home (1954) with Martin and Lewis, and Red Garters (1954) with Rosemary Clooney. Marshall went to South Africa to make Duel in the Jungle (1954) then back at Paramount remade his own Destry Rides Again as Destry (1954) with Audie Murphy.
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They also meet up for drinks and pool in episode 3.23, "...Comes Around", and have a heart-to-heart talk about their jobs and why they do what they do. In episode 7.08, "Scared Stiff", Danny teases Flack after he tells him that he is afraid of spiders. Flack is devastated when his girlfriend, Detective Jessica Angell, is shot and killed in the season five finale (episode 5.25, "Pay Up"). His grief over her murder causes him to shoot her killer when he finds the man alone.
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In late October 2012, FarSight began to release "Pro Menu" upgrades for previously released tables. The upgrade lets the player control the camera to look around the table, control the ball, learn tips from pro players, and view the coin door and use the operator's menu. For Scared Stiff, it also grants the ability to turn off family mode with an uncensored voice-over. Pro Menus are not available on all tables due to the lack of features that didn't exist on the actual tables.
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Martin and Lewis had a cameo in Hope and Bing Crosby's Road to Bali the previous year as part of a "comedy trade" between the two teams. In turn, Hope and Crosby appear for a cameo in Scared Stiff. Both shared a common producer, Cy Howard, who produced Martin and Lewis' first two My Friend Irma pictures and That's My Boy. A few years later, Martin and Frank Sinatra appeared in the final scene of the final Hope and Crosby road picture, Road to Hong Kong.
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Vicki responds to Charley's charm, however, and offers to leave a window open at her home. Charley shows up and they end up in bed, only to be caught by her other lover—Bugsy Siegel, the notorious gangster. Bugsy amuses himself with the notion that he will take the scared-stiff Vicki and Charley to a justice of the peace in the middle of the night and make them marry one another. Charley drives her back to California and offers to pay her expenses, but Vicki walks out.
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Fleetwood commented later that jamming and improvising a show each night "made for an interesting six weeks, because not once did we take the stage knowing what the set was going to be." In later years, bassist John McVie would remember that kind of performing as "invigorating", but at the time, he said, "We were scared stiff. We would go on stage every night, look at the audience and not have a clue what we were going to play." The band's jamming was received enthusiastically by the American audiences.
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In the third season episode of Arrested Development entitled "Notapusy," a former prison inmate mistakes a gay conversion therapy seminar entitled "Startled Straight" for a Scared Straight!-type program and lectures the group of men about the horrors of incarceration, especially the prevalence of homosexual prison sex. "A Date with the Booty Warrior," a third season episode of The Boondocks, features a group of children participating in a program called "Scared Stiff." However, the program is subverted when the children and prisoners collaborate to organize a prison strike.
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Among the celebrities who made token "gag" appearances in this film are bandleader Bob Crosby (Bing's brother), Humphrey Bogart, by way of a clip from The African Queen, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, and Jane Russell, as her character from the film Son of Paleface (1952). The cameo by Martin and Lewis was part of a 'comedy trade' whereby they made an appearance in this movie while Hope and Crosby appeared in Martin and Lewis's Scared Stiff the following year. Martin and Lewis also made films for Paramount at the time.
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In April 2011, the duo signed to Capitol Records and re-released the album the following year, with the single "Free" reaching radio charts in the United States, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Music from the album received syncs for a multitude of TV series and advertising campaigns, including Grey's Anatomy, CSI: NY,CSI:NY Music – Season 7: "Scared Stiff", TuneFind Covert Affairs, Victoria's Secret, Hollister, Heineken, MTV, VH1,Golden, Zara. "You Oughta Know‘s Graffiti6 Are Featured In The New VH1′s Psychedellic New Music Spot", VH1.com, 24 August 2012.
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Despite the negative experience and reviews, Scared Stiff remains Scott's third favorite film. In April 1953, the 30-year-old Scott made her last film under contract to Paramount. In Bad for Each Other (1953), Scott played a decadent heiress who tries to dominate a poor but idealistic physician (Charlton Heston). The source material for the screenplay, Horace McCoy's novel Scalpel, was more nuanced than the linear morality play of Bad For Each Other.David E. Wilt (Popular Press 1, January 1, 1991), Hardboiled in Hollywood: Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies, pp. 40–41.
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Frank Sinatra Jr. was the main guest star. As Brian and Sinatra, Jr. are performing on stage, the song they are singing was originally composed for the 1960 film, High Time; however after the film, the song became so popular it was used in a new movie in 1973. Another musical performance performed by Brian and Sinatra was based on a musical composition used in the film Scared Stiff. When Brian is in the hospital after being hit by Peter's car, Stewie says that he will have to hang out with The Rock again.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a number of Elvira-themed computer games were produced: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus, and Elvira: The Arcade Game. Two Elvira- themed pinball machines were produced by Bally/Midway: Elvira and the Party Monsters in 1989 and Scared Stiff in 1996. A third pinball machine has been produced by Stern Pinball and was released in October 2019, titled Elvira's House of Horrors. Elvira was also one of the special characters featured in the 2007 PlayStation 3 game Pain.
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The team's ninth picture, Scared Stiff is a remake of Paramount's previous effort, The Ghost Breakers, a 1940 "scare comedy" starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, also directed by George Marshall.Neibaur, James L. and Okuda, Ted: Jerry Lewis Films, The: an analytical filmography of the innovative comic, pp. 62–72. McFarland & Company, Inc, 1995. The property has proven successful for Paramount in decades past and they've also filmed two versions in the silent era The Ghost Breaker (1914) directed by Cecil B. DeMille and The Ghost Breaker (1922) starring Wallace Reid.
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Norman Lear was credited with "additional dialogue." It was his first writing credit on a Hollywood film. Scared Stiff turned out to be the last film for Carmen Miranda who died two years later, shortly after completing an episode of The Jimmy Durante Show on TV. In the film, Jerry Lewis impersonates Miranda and lip syncs one of her signature numbers, "Mamãe Eu Quero". The Ghostbusters series of films, though not a product of Dickey or Goddard, continue on in the same spirit as their Ghost Breaker predecessors.
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He submitted a proposal that would make it unlawful "for any person by the use of force or violence or threat of violence, to prevent or to attempt to prevent any person from engaging in any lawful vocation within this city." Regarding the then- current strike against North American Aviation (1941), he said: > We know how these agitators will act. The Army will guard the plant all > right, but how about the homes, the wives and the children of the workmen? I > tell you, these men who wish to work are scared stiff.
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Both Compston and Henshall spent time researching their parts and the characters they would be playing. Compston admitted to being scared stiff in one scene and said that he had driven around to Manuel's old house after filming and parked up, "just to sit outside". Henshall talked about his part with William Muncie's daughter and was determined to bring the character to life, who, by Henshall's estimation, was single-minded in catching Manuel but also the only one who took to the notion of him being a serial killer. The production caused controversy amongst the relatives of some of the victims.
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Even when he discovered that he was to play it in the way which suited his personality, that he was not expected to sing some of the more difficult numbers, that he was to let his own ability and charm carry him along, he was still afraid. This was not his line of country at all, this Ruritanian stuff; he wanted to be slick and modern and American, as those things were understood in 1907. Even at the dress rehearsal he was scared stiff. He told [music publisher] William Boosey that he was in for the failure of his life.
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"While not a perfect film," Owen wrote, "The Cinema Snob Movie is an enjoyable no-budget affair made with a lot of heart and dedication. You can see the progression Jones has made as a writer and Mitchelle as a director. With some more time and a bigger budget, these two could really make a fantastic exploitation film that would rival a lot of the direct-to-DVD trash I'm used to picking up in the cheap section at ASDA." Geno McGahee of Scared Stiff Reviews gave the film a 6.5 out of 10, praising the acting, message, and humor, but criticizing the two-hour length.
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More recently, critics such as Derek Malcolm and Barry Norman have praised the film, with Norman calling Savage "sultry and sexy...a feline film noir star at its finest". After Detour, although Savage starred in a half-dozen more films during the later 1940s — including Scared Stiff (1945), The Spider (1945), The Dark Horse (1946), and Satan's Cradle (1949; a rare Western) — her most prolific years were behind her. When Detour entered the public domain, it frequently was syndicated on television channels, and released in numerous VHS incarnations. Gaining cult status and garnering critical acclaim as "arguably film noir's greatest low-budget feature", this exposure earned Savage a new, younger, following.
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She began acting on television while continuing to appear in films, guest-starring on shows such as The Philco- Goodyear Television Playhouse ("Education of a Fullback", 1951), and Kraft Theatre ("The Golden Slate", 1951). Malone relocated to New York City for several months to study acting until producer Hal B. Wallis called her back to appear in Scared Stiff (1953) starring the comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Then she was the love interest in a war film, Torpedo Alley (1952) for Allied Artists. She was a love interest in Westerns with Ronald Reagan (Law and Order, 1953) and Mark Stevens (Jack Slade, 1953).
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One of his favourite stories for interviewers was about his father sending him to the local police station with a note when he was five; the policeman looked at the note and locked him in a cell for a few minutes, saying, "This is what we do to naughty boys." The experience left him, he said, with a lifelong fear of policemen; in 1973 he told Tom Snyder that he was "scared stiff of anything ... to do with the law" and wouldn't even drive a car in case he got a parking ticket.For the police story: ; ; Cavett, Dick (8 June 1972). "Interview with Alfred Hitchcock", The Dick Cavett Show, ABC, 00:06:52 .
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Songs featured were by music legends Harry Warren and Jack Brooks, and included "When You Pretend", "You Look So Familiar", "Innamorata (Sweetheart)", "The Lucky Song", and "Artists and Models." A sixth number, sung by Shirley MacLaine during the party, entitled "The Bat Lady", was cut from the final edit. MacLaine did not make another film with Lewis, but did go on to appear in six more films with Martin, Some Came Running, Ocean's Eleven, Career, All in a Night's Work, What a Way to Go! and Cannonball Run II. According to a 1955 column by Sheilah Graham, the part of Abby was originally offered to Lizabeth Scott, who had played opposite the team in Scared Stiff.
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The latter is a multi-character 'small town' horror story along the lines of similar work in this period, a subgenre perhaps 'pump- primed' by the likes of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot. In characteristically honest and self-critical afterwords, Campbell has claimed that The Hungry Moon, along with the similarly commercially minded The Parasite and, to a lesser degree, The Claw, are among of his least successful of his works, by turns awkwardly structured, containing too many ideas, and/or tending towards explicit violence. By contrast, The Influence (1988) and Ancient Images (1989) are tightly plotted novels of supernatural menace, each with (predominantly) female central characters and generating unease through the author's trademark suggestiveness and surreal imagery. In 1987, Campbell published Scared Stiff, a collection of "sex and horror" short stories.
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Fang is a large boarhound (portrayed in the films by a Neapolitan Mastiff) that, aside from his enormous size, appears to be an entirely ordinary dog. While Fang's appearance is intimidating, he is, in Hagrid's words, "a bloody coward." Boisterous and loving with people he knows, he seems to enjoy licking Harry, Ron, or Hermione around the face or ears. In the Philosopher’s Stone he accompanies Harry, Hagrid, Draco, and Hermione into the Forbidden Forest to look for an injured unicorn. In the following book, the Chamber of Secrets, Harry and Ron take Fang into the forest where he is scared stiff of both the gigantic acromantula and Mr Weasley’s flying car. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, an escaping Death Eater sets fire to Hagrid’s hut while Fang is inside; Hagrid enters the flaming hut, slings Fang over his shoulder, and carries him to safety.
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Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13th Part 2 (although, surprisingly, not its 1980 original), Halloween I & II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 & 2, Nightwing), the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Fog, The Fury, The Howling, The Shining) and spoofs (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hold That Ghost, The Ghost Breakers, Scared Stiff, Phantom of the Paradise, Saturday the 14th). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
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And > because I saw the city all around me as this kind of gothic, almost > supernatural landscape, I think a lot of that fed into my writing.Cold Print > (website), "A Demon by Daylight" Campbell's first collection of short stories, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (1964), was filled with stories that take place in the Severn Valley setting, including "The Room in the Castle", "The Horror From the Bridge", "The Insects From Shaggai", "The Render of the Veils", "The Inhabitant of the Lake", "The Moon-Lens", "The Mine on Yuggoth", "The Plain of Sound", and "The Stone on the Island". His next collection, Demons by Daylight (1973), though described by Campbell as a conscious effort to throw off Lovecraft's influence, again used this Cthulhu Mythos-linked setting for several tales: "Potential", "The Sentinels", "The Interloper", "The Enchanted Fruit", "Made in Goatswood", and a metafictional examination of Campbell's own Lovecraftian beginnings called "The Franklyn Paragraphs". After Demons by Daylight, Campbell returned to the Severn Valley sporadically, in such works as "Dolls" (in 1986's Scared Stiff), "The Tugging" (The Disciples of Cthulhu 1996), and the 2003 novel The Darkest Part of the Woods.
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Their Comedy Hour shows consisted of stand-up dialogue, song and dance from their nightclub act and movies, backed by Dick Stabile's big band, slapstick and satirical sketch comedy, Martin's solo songs, and Lewis' solo pantomimes or physical numbers. They often broke character, ad-libbing and breaking the fourth wall. While not completely capturing the orchestrated mayhem of their nightclub act, the Comedy Hour displayed charismatic energy between the team and established their popularity nationwide. By 1951, with an appearance at the Paramount Theatre in New York, they were a cultural phenomenon. The duo began their film careers at Paramount Pictures as ensemble players, in a 1949 film adaptation of the radio series My Friend Irma and its sequel My Friend Irma Goes West (1950). The pair then starred in 14 new feature-length movies of their own, At War with the Army (1950), That's My Boy (1951), Sailor Beware (1952), Jumping Jacks (1952), The Stooge (1952), Scared Stiff (1953), The Caddy (1953), Money from Home (1953), Living It Up (1954), 3 Ring Circus (1954), You're Never Too Young (1955), Artists and Models (1955), Pardners (1956) and Hollywood or Bust (1956), all produced by Hal B. Wallis and appeared on Bing Crosby and Bob Hope's Olympic Fund Telethon.
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