The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Jan 20, 1966 | IMDB 6.7
90 min Watch NowComedy, Family, Mystery, Romance, Horror
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.
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