The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
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Actor: Dick Sargent, Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Skip HomeierBrand: KNOTTS/STALEY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Movie Review: You can't go wrong with Don Knotts and a haunted house
Summary: 5 Stars
It's almost too easy: put Don Knotts in a haunted house, and you're guaranteed to have a funny movie. I'm sure many of us still remember the classic haunted house episode of The Andy Griffith Show as one of our favorites. Don Knotts had just left his Emmy-winning role of Barney Fife (and he left the show because the plan all along had been to end the show after five seasons - but then the show didn't end), but the Mayberry stamp can certainly still be seen in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. There were cameos from such familiar faces as "Otis" and "Clara," and the idea for a running gag featuring an off-screen character yelling "Attaboys" throughout the film can be attributed to Andy Griffith himself. You'll also see the grouchy old man who kept trying to shut down the Hooterville Cannonball in Petticoat Junction and Dick Sargent of Bewitched fame. Knotts was fortunate indeed to have Joan Staley, a former Playboy Playmate, as his leading lady - Thelma Lou has nothing on her, let me tell you.
Knotts plays Luther Heggs, a character very much in the Barney Fife vein. Heggs is a typesetter at the local paper, but he dreams of being a real reporter. His attempt to get a real scoop winds up making him a laughingstock all over town; to make matters worse, his mean supervisor at the paper has a thing going with Alma Parker (Staley), the subject of his own affections. Heggs gets what could be his big break when the editor asks him to write an article on the old Simmons mansion, a spooky old place reportedly haunted for the past twenty years - since the night Mr. Simmons killed his wife and then took a swan-dive off the upper floor. There's only one thing that can convince a terrified fellow to spend a night in a haunted house, and it isn't a desire to show his boss or anyone else what he is made of; no, the only thing that will work here is a desire to impress a lady, and so Heggs settles in for the scariest night of his life. His story about the ghostly manifestations he witnessed makes him a town hero, but it raises the ire of the surviving Simmons descendant who is eager to tear down the house for reasons of his own. And so it is that Heggs has to prove to a court of law that he saw what he said he saw.
It's a pretty simple plot that is easily predictable from the very start, but this movie works because it is funny. The whole thing might have fizzled with another actor, but Don Knotts makes everything hilarious - he is a master of physical comedy (bettered only by Tim Conway). He is truly in his element here as a reluctant hero - there's very little difference between Luther Heggs and Barney Fife, when it comes right down to it. They really ought to slap a "guaranteed funny" label on the front of this one.
Summary of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
A lowly newspaper employee sets out to solve a twenty-year-old murder mystery.No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: KNOTTS/STALEY
Title: GHOST & MR CHICKEN
Street Release Date: 01/09/2007
Genre: COMEDY VIDEO
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