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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.