The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

Directed by

Alan Rafkin

Genre

comedy horror, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

G

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 101 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bumbling small-town typesetter spends a night in a local haunted house to prove he is not a coward. He encounters strange noises and spooky happenings that lead to a mystery.

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What happens

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. Don Knotts' first major project after leaving The Andy Griffith Show, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken uses a similar small town setting and involved a number of alumni from the sitcom, including director Alan Rafkin and writers Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum. It was a box office success, paving the way for a string of other Knotts-fronted comedy films. The working title was Running Scared. The title is presumably a humorous variation of the film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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