The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
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- Don Knotts
- Joan Staley
- Liam Redmond
- Dick Sargent
- Skip Homeier
- Reta Shaw
- Lurene Tuttle
- Philip Ober
- Harry Hickox
- Charles Lane
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- Aug 22, 2026
It still plays. Those Andy Griffith Show players were terrific comic actors and they are all right in the pocket here. Oh my God Joan Staley is super-fine. The kids loved it. The boy gives it a thousand stars. The girl only gives it ten stars because “it’s too scary.”
carrieandtracyOct 15, 2018Cozy, spoopy, and above all else—charming. Perfect dreary, lazy day/afternoon off before work starts tomorrow kinda movie that also works as an excellent background movie during October.
Ian WestOct 13, 2025An aspiring reporter (Don Knotts) is struggling to solve a murder mystery. He takes a job to stay at a haunted house to score points with his boss, even though he’s literally terrified of everything. I think you know what you’re getting into if you watch this—and Knotts…
David Whitman - Nov 15, 2024
"I didn't know you knew karate." "Yeah, I've been studying it by mail for years." Don Knotts' first filmic foray after The Andy Griffith Show kept a lot of the staff behind the camera, (even Andy Griffith, who reportedly contributed the "attaboy Luther" gag.) Griffith…
Jack OftenFeb 1, 2020"Atta boy, Luther!" This is one of my dad's favorite movies.
🎃Luke Williams🎃"ATTABOY, LUTHER!"
Meredith 🌼 - Jun 11, 2026
For fifteen minutes, Don Knotts runs around a spooky house filled with cobwebs, making faces. This was the best entertainment kids had in 1966.
Justin DeclouxSep 27, 2019there were zero ghosts and zero chickens
eelyMar 14, 2021" That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon"
Lou Walton
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Don Knott's physical comedy is insanely good, and this shows what he was going to be capable of doing when he joined Three's Company. The same kind of murder mystery you always see, but this one has a cozy and charming vibe to it. Wish we could’ve had more scenes in the house!
Still one of my guilty pleasures. Don Knotts had such a unique and subtle slapstick type of humor that always cracks me up.
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- 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