The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

January. 20,1966      G
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Don Knotts as  Luther Heggs
Joan Staley as  Alma Parker
Liam Redmond as  Kelsey
Dick Sargent as  George Beckett
Skip Homeier as  Ollie Weaver
Reta Shaw as  Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
Lurene Tuttle as  Mrs. Natalie Miller
Philip Ober as  Nicholas Simmons
Harry Hickox as  Police Chief Art Fuller
Charles Lane as  Whitlow

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