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The Ghost & Mr. Chicken is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Alan Rafkin released in USA on 20 january 1966 with Don Knotts

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
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Released in USA 20 january 1966
Length 1h30
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Horror comedy,    Romance
Rating71% 3.595443.595443.595443.595443.59544

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a 1966 American comedy-drama film starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house, which is located in the fictitious community of Rachel, Kansas. The working title was Running Scared. The actual title is presumably a humorous variation of the 1947 film, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Synopsis

Luther Heggs is a typesetter at the newspaper in Rachel, Kansas, but aspires to be a reporter. One night, observing what he believes to be a murder outside of an old, supposedly haunted house known as the Simmons Mansion, Heggs rushes to the police station with his scoop. Unfortunately, as he relates the details of his story to the Chief of Police, the murder "victim" walks into the room, a local drunk who had merely been whacked unconscious by his irate wife, who had brought him in to be locked up. The next morning, Heggs walks downstairs to the dining room at the Natalie Miller boarding house and overhears Ollie Weaver (Homeier), a full-time reporter at the newspaper, mocking his mistakes of the night before; Ollie is also dating Heggs' love interest, Alma Parker (Joan Staley). According to local lore, the Simmons Mansion was a "murder house" (murder and suicide) 20 years earlier, when Mr. Simmons murdered his wife (with some unknown sharp instrument that was never located - ultimately revealed to be a pair of gardener's pruning shears), and then jumped to his death from the organ loft. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Simmons can still occasionally be heard playing the organ at midnight.

Actors

Don Knotts

(Luther Heggs)Liam Redmond

(Kelsey)Joan Staley

(Alma Parker)Sandra Gould

(Loretta Pine)Dick Sargent

(George Beckett)
And :
Skip Homeier
Philip Ober
Lurene Tuttle
Charles Lane
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