Larry Lawrence, sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk (and Larry) are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk’s owner, pretty Mary Carter, is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a “haunted” castle. Sensing that Mary is in danger, Larry and his valet Alex precede her to the island, which is inhabited by a ghost, a zombie and perhaps even a flesh and blood fiend. There’s romance, comedy and chills as Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard contend with earthly and un-earthly foes – and try to keep from ending up as ghosts themselves!