The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!
90 min
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.
- Release date
- January 20, 1966
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $700,000
Trailer
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 Lawyer Whitlow
Crew
- Alan Rafkin · Director
- James Fritzell · Writer
- Everett Greenbaum · Writer
- Edward Montagne · Producer
- Vic Mizzy · Composer
- William Margulies · Cinematographer
- Sam E. Waxman · Editor