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title: 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alan Rafkin'
released: '1966-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-ghost-and-mr-chicken-1966'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059221/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

1966 · 90 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a 1966 American comedy horror mystery film starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, the town dunce and a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house, which is located in the fictitious community of Rachel, Kansas. Don Knotts' first major project after leaving The Andy Griffith Show, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken uses a similar small town setting and involved a number of alumni from the sitcom, including director Alan Rafkin and writers Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum. It was a box office success, paving the way for a string of other Knotts-fronted comedy films. The working title was Running Scared. The title is presumably a humorous variation of the film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alan Rafkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-rafkin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Vic Mizzy](https://cinepixo.com/people/vic-mizzy)

## Cast

- [Don Knotts](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-knotts)
- [Skip Homeier](https://cinepixo.com/people/skip-homeier)
- [Sandra Gould](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandra-gould)
- [Liam Redmond](https://cinepixo.com/people/liam-redmond)
- [Joan Staley](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-staley)
- [Dick Sargent](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-sargent)

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