The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Director: Alan Rafkin Alan Rafkin

Overview

"One of the most beloved comedy classics of Don Knotts' career, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken arrives on DVD courtesy of Universal Studios. The feature is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and accompanied by audio rendered in closed-captioned English Dolby Digital Mono with optional Spanish and French subtitles. Bonus materials are limited to a theatrical trailer."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/02/2003
UPC:	0025192354427
Original Release:	1966
Rating:	NR
Source:	UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	11,181

Special Features

Closed Caption; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Don Knotts	Luther Heggs
Joan Staley	Alma Parker
Skip Homeier	Ollie Weaver
Liam Redmond	Kelsey
Dick Sargent	George Beckett
Reta Shaw	Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
Lurene Tuttle	Mrs. Natalie Miller
Philip Ober	Nicholas Simmons
Harry Hickox	Police Chief Art Fuller
Charles Lane	Whitlow
Jesslyn Fax	Mrs. Hutchinson
Nydia Westman	Mrs. Cobb
George Chandler	Judge
Robert Cornthwaite	Springer
Jim Begg	Herkie
Sandra Gould	Loretta Pine
James Millhollin	Mr. Maxwell
Cliff Norton	Bailiff
Ellen Corby	Miss Tremaine
Jim Boles	Billy Ray
Hope Summers	Suzanna Blush
Hal Smith	Calver Weems
Eddie Quillan	Elevator Operator
J. Edward McKinley	Mayor
Burt Mustin	Mr. Deligondo

Technical Credits

James Fritzell

Everett Greenbaum

Alan Rafkin	Director
James Fritzell	Screenwriter
Everett Greenbaum	Screenwriter
Edward J. Montagne	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Don Knotts definitively demonstrates that "calm and murder" don't go together in this 1966 comedy, which, along with The Incredible Mr. Limpet, ranks as his best. Certainly, of all his films it is the one most fondly remembered by baby boomers. Knotts is in peak pipsqueak form as small-town "boob" Luther Heggs, the put-upon typesetter at a small-town newspaper, who yearns to be a reporter. But to get a front-page byline, he must spend the night at the local "murder house," the scene of a grisly, unsolved crime that took place 20 years before. Knotts is at his bug-eyed best as he navigates the house's various terrors. When his incredible reports of ghostly organ music and a bloodstained portrait are discredited by the scheming heir who wants to demolish his family's infamous abode, Luther rises to the occasion, solves the mystery, and even gets the pretty girlfriend (Joan Staley, the November 1958 Playboy Playmate of the Month!) of his taunting rival. Look early on for Hal Smith, who played Otis the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show. And if the home looks eerily familiar, there is a reason why: It was the stabbing grounds of Norman Bates in Psycho. Talk of murder-suicide may be inappropriate for younger viewers, who might quake along with Luther, but older kids should scream with laughter.