Don Knotts, in any role he played, always was a likable guy. In "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" Knotts plays Luther Heggs, the small town newspaper's typographer who's ready to cover the big story. This is a fun and amusing story with a familiar haunted house plot. Luther takes a challenge to stay a night in the old house before it gets torn down, and the mayhem starts to happen.
It's not terribly original, nor is it hard to guess what crime might be involved. As for fright – can anyone seriously be scared in a haunted house or "horror" film with Don Knotts, Abbott and Costello or the Three Stooges? Well, it's fun and entertaining, but nothing that induces lots of laughter.
It's not terribly original, nor is it hard to guess what crime might be involved. As for fright – can anyone seriously be scared in a haunted house or "horror" film with Don Knotts, Abbott and Costello or the Three Stooges? Well, it's fun and entertaining, but nothing that induces lots of laughter.