The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
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.
- Released
- 1966-01-20
- Genres
- Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Alan Rafkin, Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 from 107 votes
Cast
- Don Knotts as Luther Heggs
- Joan Staley as Alma Parker
- Liam Redmond as Kelsey
- Dick Sargent as George Beckett
- Skip Homeier as Ollie Weaver
- Reta Shaw as Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
- Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Natalie Miller
- Philip Ober as Nicholas Simmons
- Harry Hickox as Police Chief Art Fuller
- Charles Lane as Whitlow
- Jesslyn Fax as Mrs. Hutchinson
- Nydia Westman as Mrs. Cobb
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