The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

(1966)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 102 votes

Genres: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance

Year: 1966

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Alan Rafkin

Cast: Дон Ноттс, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Дик Сарджен, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Лёрин Таттл, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Чарльз Лэйн

Plot

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.

Luther Heggs aspires to be a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that 20 years before was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. The case has aroused local interest not only because of the anniversary but because the family heir, Nick Simmons, has returned to Rachel planning to tear the mansion down. Luther's account of his wild, ghost-ridden night in the house leads Simmons to sue for libel, but with the aid of his friend Kelsey, they determine what exactly happened that night long ago and the identity of the real killer.