Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Jan 20, 1966 Wide
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Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett (Dick Sargent) gives Luther his big break and assigns him to spend the night in a house generally considered to be haunted. The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to sight gags with the special brand of eye-popping nervousness that made him a star. Former Playboy Bunny Joan Staley plays the pretty girlfriend of star reporter Ollie Skip Homeier. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
Jan 20, 1966 Wide
Sep 2, 2003
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Prime Don Knotts with Barney Fife patented laughs.
Unusually good Knotts vehicle with atmosphere and a great creepy organ piece.
For youngsters who hadn't experienced anything stronger than the attack of the ping-pong balls on 'Captain Kangaroo,' 'Mr. Chicken' -- with its spooky organ music, blood-dripping portrait and haunted 'murder house' -- was deliciously traumatic...
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is, overall, a very sweet-natured comedy. It's just the thing to watch when you are sick of foul-mouthed puppets [and] flatulent grade-schoolers...
Really great funny movie. Love Don Knotts. My mom watches these kinds of movies all the time.
November 4, 2009
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