Albert Salmi plays a newspaperman who enjoys playing practical jokes on others. The morgue attendant falls for a prank where Salmi pretends to be a stiff who rises up as if alive. The police sergeant doesn't fall for it when the attendant tells him that a body in the morgue is actually alive! The sergeant threatens that if he screws up once more he will fire him.
Albert Salmi's character also has a slipped disc in his neck that paralyzed him for a while as a child. He gets drunk, pulls a prank on a lady in a bar, gets hit by her husband/boyfriend and falls down with an apparent broken neck. They check his pulse and he does appear to be dead.
The body shows up at the morgue where the attendant checks it and Albert Salmi 'wakes up' and weakly says he's alive. The attendant in the morgue REALLY needs his job and states he won't be fooled again, so in the cooler he goes.
Sorry but even if he is paralyzed again, he would have a pulse. Doesn't pass the laugh test in my book.
Albert Salmi's character also has a slipped disc in his neck that paralyzed him for a while as a child. He gets drunk, pulls a prank on a lady in a bar, gets hit by her husband/boyfriend and falls down with an apparent broken neck. They check his pulse and he does appear to be dead.
The body shows up at the morgue where the attendant checks it and Albert Salmi 'wakes up' and weakly says he's alive. The attendant in the morgue REALLY needs his job and states he won't be fooled again, so in the cooler he goes.
Sorry but even if he is paralyzed again, he would have a pulse. Doesn't pass the laugh test in my book.