The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

Movie
TitleThe Ghost & Mr. Chicken
User score

6.7

Release dateJan 20, 1966
GenreComedy, Family, Mystery, Romance, Horror
DirectorAlan Rafkin
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesUniversal Pictures
Budget$700,000
Run time90 min.

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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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 1966 TV trailer

May 24, 2013

Adam Rifkin on THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN

Sep 17, 2013

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