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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Directed by Alan Rafkin
“G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!”
Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance · 1h 30m
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.
Cast
Don Knotts
Luther Heggs
Joan Staley
Alma Parker
Liam Redmond
Kelsey
Dick Sargent
George Beckett
Skip Homeier
Ollie Weaver
Reta Shaw
Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
Lurene Tuttle
Mrs. Natalie Miller
Philip Ober
Nicholas Simmons
Harry Hickox
Police Chief Art Fuller
Charles Lane
Whitlow
Jesslyn Fax
Mrs. Hutchinson
Nydia Westman
Mrs. Cobb
Crew
- Director
- Alan Rafkin
- Screenplay
- James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
- Director of Photography
- William Margulies
- Original Music Composer
- Vic Mizzy
- Editor
- Sam E. Waxman
- Producer
- Edward Montagne
Details
- Release date
- 1966-01-20
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Budget
- $700,000