The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

Jan 20, 1966

1h 30m

★ 6.7

G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!

Overview

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

Genres

Comedy

Family

Mystery

Romance

Horror

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Luther Heggs

Don Knotts

Alma Parker

Joan Staley

Kelsey

Liam Redmond

George Beckett

Dick Sargent

Ollie Weaver

Skip Homeier

Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell

Reta Shaw

Mrs. Natalie Miller

Lurene Tuttle

Nicholas Simmons

Philip Ober

Police Chief Art Fuller

Harry Hickox

Whitlow

Charles Lane

Mrs. Hutchinson

Jesslyn Fax

Mrs. Cobb

Nydia Westman

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