The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!
1966 1 hour 30 minutesG-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!
1966 1 hour 30 minutes
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.
20th January 1966
60 years ago
1 hour 30 minutes
Finishes at 12:16pm
$700,000 ($7,159,670 today)
Revenue unknown
1 nomination total
7.2/10
67%
67%
69%
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