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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

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

1966★ 6.7 · 1021h 30mComedyFamilyMysteryRomance

Overview

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.

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Cast

Hope Summers
as Susanna Blush

Don Knotts
as Luther Heggs

Hal Smith
as Calver Weems

Ellen Corby
as Neva Tremaine

Dick Sargent
as George Beckett

Charles Lane
as Whitlow

Lurene Tuttle
as Mrs. Natalie Miller

Philip Ober
as Nicholas Simmons

Robert Cornthwaite
as Springer

Reta Shaw
as Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell

George Chandler
as Judge Harley Nast

Sandra Gould
as Loretta Pine

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6.7/ 10

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Release date: 1966-01-20

Budget: $700,000

Runtime: 1h 30m

Genres

ComedyFamilyMysteryRomance

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