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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken  is a 1966
movie featuring comic actor Don Knotts
as local newspaper typesetter, Luther Heggs, with high hopes of becoming a reporter. While walking past the creepy, reputedly haunted Simmons mansion one night, he witnesses what he believes is a murder and gives a frantic account of his experience at the police station. After it turns out that the murder victim, the town drunk, is quite alive, to avoid ridicule by townsfolk and help boost newspaper sales Heggs accepts a challenge by his editor to spend a night alone in the mansion.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken was a perfect vehicle for Knotts to expand his portrayal of the bug-eyed, Nervous Man character he played so well in a cameo in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
three years earlier.

The film was directed by Alan Rafkin, script was written by Everett Greenbaum, and music was composed by Vic Mizzy.

Cast

  • Charles Lane
     — Whitlow
  • Don Knotts
     — Luther Heggs
  • Liam Redmond — Kelsey
  • Skip Homeier
     — Ollie Weaver
  • Lurene Tuttle — Mrs. Natalie Miller
  • Harry Hickox — Police Chief Art Fuller
  • Nydia Westman — Mrs. Cobb
  • Robert Cornthwaite — Springer
  • Sandra Gould
     — Loretta Pine
  • Cliff Norton — Charlie, the Bailiff
  • Jim Boles — Billy Ray Fox
  • Ceil Cabot — Bit/clubwoman
  • Herbie Faye — Man in Diner
  • Harry Hines — The Rotarian at picnic
  • Florence Lake — Clubwoman
  • J. Edward McKinley — Mayor Carl Preston
  • Eddie Quillan — Elevator Operator
  • Hal Smith
     — Calver Weems (the town drunk)
  • Ruth Thom — Clubwoman
  • Joan Staley — Alma Parker (Luther's love interest)
  • Dick Sargent
     — George Beckett
  • Reta Shaw — Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
  • Philip Ober — Nicholas Simmons
  • Jesslyn Fax — Mrs. Hutchinson
  • George Chandler — Judge Harley Nast
  • Jim Begg — Herkie
  • James Millhollin — Mr. Milo Maxwell
  • Ellen Corby
     — Miss Neva Tremaine
  • Phil Arnold — Juror
  • Al Checco — Gaylord Patie
  • Everett Greenbaum — Man in audience ('Attaboy, Luther')
  • Bern Hoffman — Heavyset Man at Police Station
  • Dorothy Love — Clubwoman
  • Burt Mustin — Mr.Dellagondo (Old Man Boarder at Mrs. Miller's)
  • Maxine Semon — Clubwoman
  • Hope Summers — Suzanna Blush
  • Dick Wilson
     — Bandmaster

Details

  • The Simmons mansion is built in the Second Empire style and appears similar to the Addams Family
    and Munsters houses.
  • Hal Smith who was known as Otis the drunk on The Andy Griffith Show had a cameo in the film as a town drunk again

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