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Carmen Miranda, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, and Lizabeth Scott in Scared Stiff (1953)

Dean Martin: Larry Todd

Scared Stiff

Dean Martin credited as playing...

Larry Todd

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Quotes27

  • Larry Todd: Look, I'll save you a lot of time: I'm a ghostbuster.
  • Mr. Cortega: A what?
  • Larry Todd: Why you've heard of trustbusters, and bronco busters, and gangbusters? Well I'm a ghostbuster. So watch it, Buster.
  • Mary Carol: Larry, why are you so nice to me?
  • Larry Todd: I don't know, I guess I've always been a sucker for girls named Mary Carol.
  • Larry Todd: Hi, Rosie. Mmm... crazy!
  • Rosie: Oh, Larry, I'm just an average girl.
  • Larry Todd: Honey, if you're an average girl, I've been going out with boys.
  • Larry Todd: Now you take her in your arms and you kiss her. How do you feel about that?
  • Myron Mertz: Oh, I like it! I like it!
  • Rosie: [after a long kiss] Am I going to see you later?
  • Larry Todd: You certainly are.
  • Rosie: I know a wonderful place for just the two of us.
  • Larry Todd: Yeah, where?
  • Rosie: In a telephone booth
  • Larry Todd: [after a lingering kiss he ogles her] Remind me to bring along plenty of dimes.
  • Mary Carol: You killed a perfect stranger?
  • Larry Todd: Nobody's perfect!
  • Myron Mertz: Hey, Larry, show business really gets in your blood, don't it?
  • Larry Todd: First you gotta have some.
  • Larry Todd: We're going up to that castle!
  • Myron Mertz: What about that old woman?
  • Larry Todd: Oh, she's only trying to scare us.
  • Myron Mertz: Well, she's doing a really good job of it!
  • Larry Todd: Lafayette, we are here.
  • Myron Mertz: [after an animal screeches loudly] I think Lafayette's here too.
  • Myron Mertz: What's the matter?
  • Larry Todd: One of Shorty's men. He's looking for us.
  • [Myron goes in the trunk]
  • Myron Mertz: Is he coming?
  • Larry Todd: No, he's just standing there looking around.
  • [One of Shorty's goes into the ship]
  • Larry Todd: Yeah, he's gone now.
  • Myron Mertz: Don't you worry, 'cause if he comes, I am going to stop him with one word.
  • Larry Todd: What's that?
  • Myron Mertz: HELP!
  • Larry Todd: [slaps the trunk] Ah, shut up you idiot, before you do get him down here.
  • Larry Todd: I don't mind dying, lady - it's the preliminaries I hate.
  • Larry Todd: Now look, baby, it's just like I said. We're all washed up. I don't mind competing with a French waiter, but when it comes to double-crossing the Big Boy, you can include me out.
  • Larry Todd: [singing] Well, you hit the spot, Like a pipe and slippers by a fireside, Matter of factly, don't know exactly, What it is that you've got, But, you hit the spot...
  • Larry Todd: [singing] Well, it's no fun with the sun around, But I get going when the sun goes down, And I - meet my baby, That's when we kiss and kiss and kiss, And then we kiss some more, Who cares how many times we kiss? Well, at a time like this who keeps score?
  • Myron Mertz: Wow! Must've been pretty crowded in there, huh?
  • Larry Todd: Oh, you can say that again.
  • Myron Mertz: Wow! It must've been pretty crowded in there, huh?
  • Larry Todd: Oh, why don't you shut up?
  • Mr. Cortega: Is that you?
  • Larry Todd: What? No, it's not me.
  • Mr. Cortega: I'm very sorry.
  • Mary Carol: What is this?
  • Larry Todd: Don't talk. Especially, don't scream. If there's gonna be any hysterics around here, I'll have them.
  • Myron Mertz: I'm onto your game, Larry. You ain't got me fooled. You're risking our lives for that girl. I know you. Just 'cause she's beautiful and she has luscious lips, a beautiful figure and she's pretty and her hair is shiny and silky and. - you know something?
  • Larry Todd: What?
  • Myron Mertz: I don't blame you.
  • Larry Todd: Myron, it's cut and dried. Either you play ball with me - or Shorty plays taps for you.
  • Larry Todd: I'm not going back to New York. I'm going to Cuba.
  • Myron Mertz: Cuba! Are you crazy?
  • Larry Todd: Yeah, I'm crazy about Cuba. Everybody should see Cuba.

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