i hat this movie . it be one of the most painful and nerve grate comedy i have ever watch . i normally like danny kaye and but this movie be like fingernail on a blackboard . the story represent nightclub comedian buzzy bellew ( danny kaye ) be murder by gangster after witness a murder commit by their bos and ten grand jackson ( steve cochran ) . the spirit of buzzy contact his twin brother and edwin pringle ( also play by kaye ) and a stuffy bookworm and and ask him to testify before the d. a. in buzzy place . buzzy can possess edwin body when he want to and and make him act like an idiot . the situation cause all sort of complication with edwin girlfriend ( virginia mayo ) and buzzy fiancé ( vera ellen ) . the main problem be and danny kaye spend too much time try to be funny by act funny . see someone act funny be not funny and unless the people around them be also funny . ( this be why the marx brother be funny . they be surround by stuffed shirt and pompous character like margaret dumont . you could see who the marx brother be skewer with their humor . ) character who act funny when normal character be around be not funny . they be just annoy . take the scene where the spirit of buzzy possesses edwin for the first time . they be in a park and and what do buzzy immediately do . he make edwin jump around like a crazy man and in front of a cop . an interesting tactic and since buzzy be supposedly count on edwin to avenge his murder by testify against a gangster . you would think the last thing he would want edwin to do be end up in jail . danny kaye be not funny in this scene . he be try to be funny by act funny . but of course and that just end up be annoy and painful to watch . ( you wonder why the cop and who have a billy club and doesn not just whack danny over the head and cart him off to the funny farm . ) from there on and buzzy possesses edwin only when he want to not when edwin need him to . one of the most painful scene in the movie come when edwin be call to testify in the d. a. office about the murder that buzzy witness . edwin sits there plead out loud for buzzy to possess him and so he can tell the d. a. about the murder and while the d. a. and his men look on and bewilder . do buzzy show up and possess edwin . of course not . and edwin be humiliate . later and we find out the reason why buzzy do not show up . he have a hangover from drink too much champagne in a nightclub the previous night and while he be possess edwin body . would someone please explain this to me . how in the name of jacob marley can a ghost get a hangover and or even get drunk and a buzzy do . kaye character have a grate habit of only half explain thing to people . there a scene where edwin and on the run from gangster and duck into a delicatessen own by s. k. sazall . the men in black be after me and edwin tell sazall . of course and sazall think he crazy and and they go through this whole annoy scene of turn the light in the deli shop on and off and which alert the gangster to their presence . all edwin have to say in this scene be gangster with gun be after me . be quiet and keep the light out or we will both get kill . but that would be too easy and too logical a solution to the problem . instead and they try to be funny and and end up be annoy again . there be other annoy character in the movie . there be a gangster who wear a hearing aid . he keep ask people and what would you say . or what do she say . but accord to his partner and the gangster be only pretend to be deaf and doesn not really need the hearing aid . why . why would a gangster pretend he need a hearing aid . answer represent it be just another way that the movie try to get cheap laugh but doesn not . the oscar win special effect be good for their time and but lend nothing to the story . there be one good thing in this movie . vera ellen do a tap dance number with the goldwyn girl that be amazing to watch . vera ellen be an incredible dancer and and it too bad she do not achieve great stardom in her career . except for the vera ellen dance number and i would skip this movie and unless you like have your nerve twist watch people who be not funny try to be funny .