The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken ★★½ 1966
Fraidy cat Luther Heggs (Knotts) works for a small town newspaper and longs to be a hot-shot reporter. One night he thinks he sees a woman's corpse at the vacant Simmons mansion but of course there's no body when the cops come. The house is considered haunted and there is a 20-year-old murder scandal, so Luther is very reluctantly persuaded to spend the night and solve the sinister goings-on. 90m/C VHS, DVD . Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Dick Sargent, Liam Redmond, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober; D: Alan Rafkin; W: James Fritzell; C: William Margulies; M: Vic Mizzy.
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