The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

1966

Action / Comedy / Family / Mystery / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 67% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 7548 7.5K

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Plot summary

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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Don Knotts as Luther Heggs
Joan Staley as Alma Parker
Philip Ober as Nicholas Simmons
Teddy Quinn as Autograph Seeker
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English 2.0
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1 hr 30 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by FiendishDramaturgy 9 / 10

Entertaining horror spoof of a more innocent time.

As the spunky, witty typesetter of the local newspaper who is sometimes afraid of his own shadow, Don Knotts goes up against the local legendary haunted house, a garden-shears-carrying nemesis, and a real true to life bad guy in this funny, quirky, endearing mystery from Universal's 1966 archives.

"Everything I ever needed to know about life, I learned from the Ghost and Mr. Chicken." the Fiend :.

This is an excellent, wholesome horror/comedy featuring many of your favorite members of the "Mayberry" bunch. It's delightful entertainment for the whole family, and one of Knotts's best performances as the underdog with the stout heart and quaky knees.

And best of all, the ending is a bit of a surprise.

This was my favorite movie as a child, and it rates a 9/10 from...

the Fiend :.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

light charm sporadic laughs

Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a bumbling fraidy cat. He is the laughing stock of the town after claiming to witness a death. Newspaper reporter Ollie Weaver leads the town in making fun of the wannabe reporter. Ollie is also dating the lovely Alma Parker who Luther is in love with. There is a mansion where 20 years before, a husband murdered his wife and committed suicide. For a story, the editor proposes that Luther spend the night in the Simmons mansion.

It's a little fun to see Don Knotts stumble around and being scared living off of his TV success. It's Don Knotts being Don Knotts. It's not that funny but it has a light charm. It's very light and not that compelling. There are few big laughs. I would think Andy Griffith fans loved this movie when it came out but I never actually seen the show. My Don Knotts is Ralph Furley.

Reviewed by mark.waltz 6 / 10

Lots of Knotts ain't Chicken Feed.

Barney Fife and Ralph Furley, two of the most memorable cowardly braggarts of T.V. sitcoms, are instantly recognizable in the personality of Don Knott's Luther Heggs, the typesetter on the newspaper of a small city who longs to be a reporter but can't seem to get the scoop. He fails in his first try to report a murder when the corpse walks in, and when he has the chance to redeem himself by spending the night in the house where a grizzly murder took place, he takes it, even though it is the night of the 20th anniversary. The entire town stands behind him with the exception of the haunted house's owner who intends to tear down the rat trap and doesn't want any publicity.

Knotts had left "The Andy Griffith Show" the year before after the lead in the extremely successful "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", and while he didn't explode into a huge comedy movie star, the films he did under his brief contract with Universal were amusing, if sometimes instantly forgettable. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" is by far and large the most popular of these light-hearted farces which played mainly on the "neighborhood" circuit rather than the huge movie palaces still rampant in the 1960's. It is perhaps a bit too long, but most of it moves very fast, even though the revelation of the mystery of the so-called haunted house is not at all surprising.

In many ways, this feels like a big-screen version of some T.V. sitcom, probably because the cast is filled with veterans of 1960's sitcoms, particularly "Bewitched". Not only is there Dick Sargent (The replacement Darren) and Sandra Gould (the second Gladys), but Reta Shaw (Aunt Bertha/Hagatha) and Charles Lane (several parts), and of course, Don Knotts who had achieved T.V. fame on "The Andy Griffith Show". Hope Summers, who plays the screaming woman in the opening scene, appeared on tons of sitcoms, and Lurene Tuttle (Knott's kindly landlady) was everywhere as well. Shaw is hysterical as the head of a ladies organization not just interested in the supernatural, but obsessed with it.

Special note should be made of the snappy music by Vic Mizzy whose scores dominated many similar movies of the 1960's, as well as a few T.V. series including "The Addams Family". When you hear this music, you can't help but realize that it screams '60's, and in the most delightful nostalgic way. Another reason why this film screams "sitcom" is the fact that its director, Alan Rafkin, was behind the cameras on many T.V. shows from the 1950's through the 90's, only directing a few features, and mostly ones like this.

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