The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a 1966 American comedy horror mystery film starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, the town dunce and a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house, which is located in the fictitious community of Rachel, Kansas. The Ghost and Mr.
Chicken: Directed by Alan Rafkin. With Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent. A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter.
Universal Pictures released The Ghost and Mr Chicken on 20 January 1966. Universal, of course, pretty much defined horror throughout the 1930s and 1940s. They produced many horror films throughout the 1950s.
But few were especially good. Creature from the Black Lagoon (along with its two sequels) was the end of the classic creature features. The Ghost and Mr.
Chicken, American screwball comedy, released in 1966, that was Don Knotts's first feature film after he left the hit television program The Andy Griffith Show. Knotts played nervous Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter who, in the hope of being promoted to reporter, agrees to. 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. Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for The Ghost and Mr. Chicken on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Chicken: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier, Edward J. Montagne, Alan Rafkin: Movies & TV Don Knotts stars as a timid typesetter who hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house! Figuring the answers to the mystery lie.