Trivia

The previous year Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had made an uncredited gag appearance in Bing Crosby and Bob Hope's Road to Bali (1952). Hope and Crosby returned the favor with cameos in this film.

Final film of Carmen Miranda.

Feature film writing debut of future TV mogul Norman Lear.

George Marshall also directed the earlier version of this film (The Ghost Breakers (1940)).

Dean Martin's performance of "I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine" was the influential version of the song, which became Elvis Presley's second Sun single in 1954.

Bing Crosby: a skeleton.

Bob Hope: a skeleton. Hope appeared in The Ghost Breakers (1940), of which this film is a remake.