Comics, Let’s Talk!: Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Join Kevin Given as he looks back on a classic comedy with the legendary Don Knotts, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

1) What year did the film come out?

2) What inspired the filmmakers to make this movie?

3) What was the original name of the film?

4) what 1947 film inspired the movie?

5) What were Don Knotts’s character’s name and occupation?

6) What’s the name of the mansion in this film?

7) What incident gave the mansion the reputation for being haunted?

8) Who does Don Knotts have a crush on in this film?

9) What Andy Griffith actors also appear in this film?

10) What Bewitched actor stars with Don Knotts in this film?

11) What sitcom did Knotts appear on for 5 years before starring in this movie?

12) What episode of Andy Griffith inspired this movie?

13) What was the name of the Mansion on the TV episode?

14) What playboy playmate appears in this film?

15) What Elvis movie did she appear in?

16) What connection does this film have with House on Haunted Hill?

Looking to score a break as a newspaper reporter and impress beautiful Alma Parker (Joan Staley), milquetoast typesetter Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) pitches a story about his small town’s haunted house. When his editor (Dick Sargent) insists Luther spend a night alone in the spooky mansion, where a grisly murder-suicide had taken place decades earlier, the timid reporter learns that the house contains a supernatural resident who doesn’t like visitors.

Screenplay: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell

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