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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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