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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
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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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Synopsis
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.
More about The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Cast
Don KnottsLuther Heggs
Joan StaleyAlma Parker
Liam RedmondKelsey
Dick SargentGeorge Beckett
Skip HomeierOllie Weaver
Reta ShawMrs. Halcyon Maxwell
Lurene TuttleMrs. Natalie Miller
Philip OberNicholas SimmonsCredits
- Directed by
- Alan Rafkin
- Written by
- James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $700K
Production
Universal PicturesUnited States
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