History Film / TheGhostAndMrChicken

-> ''"The horribleness and awfulness of it will never actually be forgotten?"''

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Nicholas Simmons takes Alma captive in a last ditch effort to preserve his alibi.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: Nicholas Simmons]] expected all the people to leave the mansion behind after Luther was discredited. [[spoiler: What he didn't count on was ''Alma'' staying behind and discovering him, so he took her captive.]]

* HauntedHouse: The Simmons Mansion. [[spoiler: Subverted later, when it's revealed that all the weird doings in the old house were the work of Mr. Kelsey, but subverted ''again'' at the end of the movie, where [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the possibility is implied that there really was something supernatural after all.]]]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: In the ending when Luther marries Alma, the wedding organ inexplicably plays the Simmons Mansion organ theme all by itself, hinting at the possibility that there ''is'' a ghost after all.]]

* OminousPipeOrgan: [[spoiler: The Simmons Mansion organ. Also, the organ in the wedding chapel in the end]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ollie goes from DeadpanSnarker co-worker to Luther to becoming flat out vindictive towards him, [[spoiler: mostly because Alma dumped him for Luther.]]

In the small Kansas town of Rachel, one Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter for the local newspaper who aspires to be a photojournalist, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an allegedly {{haunted house}}, the site of an unsolved murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

-> The horribleness and awfulness of it will never actually be forgotten?
-->-- Ollie Weaver, quoting Luther's newspaper story.

%% * BastardBoyfriend: Ollie, to Alma.
%% BastardBoyfriend has been rehauled into FetishizedAbuser (for then the narrative portrays an abuser as sexually desirable). Otherwise, it's an example of DomesticAbuser. If both people display toxic behaviors, it's RomanticizedAbuse. If the romantic partner is an unpleasant person but not outright abusive, then they are just a JerkAss. Please sort accordingly and provide context.

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* BastardBoyfriend: Ollie, to Alma.

In the small town of Rachel, Kansas, one Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter for the local newspaper who aspires to be a photojournalist, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an allegedly {{haunted house}}, the site of an unsolved murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

In the small Kansas town of Rachel, one Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter for the local newspaper who aspires to be a photojournalist, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an allegedly {{haunted house}}, the site of an unsolved murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

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In the small Kansas town of Rachel, Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter for the local newspaper who aspires to be a photojournalist, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an allegedly {{haunted house}}, the site of an unsolved murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

In the small town of Rachel, Kansas, Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter for the local newspaper who aspires to be a photojournalist, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an allegedly {{haunted house}}, the site of an unsolved murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

''The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'' is a 1966 comedy horror film directed by Alan Rafkin and starring Creator/DonKnotts, with Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, and Creator/DickSargent. The screenplay was written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, who'd been writers for ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' (on which Knotts had starred as Barney Fife).

''The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'' is a 1966 comedy horror film directed by Alan Rafkin and starring Creator/DonKnotts, with Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, and Creator/DickSargent. The screenplay was written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, who were also writers for ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' (on which Knotts had previously starred as Barney Fife).

In the small town of Rachel, Kansas, Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter for the local newspaper who aspires to be a photojournalist, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an alleged {{haunted house}}, the site of an unsolved murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter from Rachel, Kansas who aspires to be a reporter for the newspaper he works at, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an alleged {{haunted house}} which he's told was the site of a murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter in Rachel, Kansas who aspires to be a reporter for the newspaper he works at, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend the night in an alleged {{haunted house}} which he's told was the site of a murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.

Luther Heggs (Knotts), a timid typesetter in Rachel, Kansas who aspires to be a reporter for the newspaper he works at, gets the opportunity by agreeing to spend a night in an alleged {{haunted house}} which he's told was the site of a murder-suicide nearly twenty years before. After Luther claims the house is indeed haunted, the nephew of the deceased aims to continue his intended destruction of the house, but for what? Luther must solve the mystery or be branded a fraud.