Zootopia 2
2025 · Animation · Adventure
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Film / 1966
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Directed by
Alan Rafkin
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Don KnottsLuther Heggs
Joan StaleyAlma Parker
Liam RedmondKelsey
Dick SargentGeorge Beckett
Skip HomeierOllie Weaver
Reta ShawMrs. Halcyon Maxwell
Lurene TuttleMrs. Natalie Miller
Philip OberNicholas Simmons
Harry HickoxPolice Chief Art Fuller
Charles LaneWhitlow
Jesslyn FaxMrs. Hutchinson
Nydia WestmanMrs. Cobb
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James MillhollinMr. Maxwell
George ChandlerJudge Harley Nast
Robert CornthwaiteSpringer
Ellen CorbyNeva Tremaine
Sandra GouldLoretta Pine
Eddie QuillanElevator Operator
Burt MustinMr. Deligondo
Hope SummersSusanna Blush
Hal SmithCalver Weems
Al CheccoGaylord Patie
J. Edward McKinleyMayor Carlyle Preston
Everett GreenbaumMan Saying 'Attaboy Luther' (voice)
Jim BolesBilly Ray Fox
Lovyss Bradley
Ruth ThomOccult Clubwoman (uncredited)
Walter BaconMan at Picnic
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