Name: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Director: Alan Rafkin
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
Released: 1966-01-20
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

“G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!”

★ 6.7 /10 (97) • 1966 • 1h 30m

Comedy Family Mystery Romance

Director Alan Rafkin

Screenplay James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum

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.