The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Vic Mizzy's peppy (and creepy) score adds to the brilliance of the film.
character actor sightings:
- Jesslyn Fax and Nydia Westman as the bickering boarding house ladies.
- Reta Shaw plays the banker's wife and head of the local occult group.
- Charles Lane and Ellen Corby show up in the courtroom scene
- Philip Ober as villian Nicky Simmons (was the real life hubby of Vivian Vance until she divorced him in 1959)
- Hope Summers ("Clara") and Hal Smith ("Otis") are brought over from TVs Mayberry as similar characters in the first scene of the film.
- Bert Mustin plays the old man boarder who lends Luther his flashlight.
trivia: Don Knotts personally contacted the makers of Bon Ami to get permission for a running gag where the product is mentioned. The other running gag has an off-camera wiseacre yelling "Atta Boy Luther!" in every crowd scene. Knotts said in his autobiography that the voice belonged to screenwriter Everett Greenbaum.
Ooh, we have to do something about "The Love God" next!
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