The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
1966 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 7,952 VOTES · DIR. Alan Rafkin
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,109 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:27 Ow!
00:04:33 Do "murder" and "calm" go together?
00:07:06 Hey, look at him, Billy Ray. He's a karate champion. We better watch ourselves.
00:10:06 You know, I'll never understand...
00:13:03 I don't know. You try and you try and you try, and what do you get?
00:15:46 particularly.
00:18:34 I've got an idea. I think somebody ought to spend the anniversary night in the house.
00:23:02 Why don't we have lunch together? Oh, yeah!
00:26:12 Ollie, that's Luther's chair. Oh, what's the word, Heggs?
00:30:15 Well, for your information, fella, I work single-o.
00:40:45 I'll talk to you later. Hey, Al!
00:43:30 No wonder you have a nervous stomach.
00:47:13 I guess we're having lunch together again.
00:51:14 I asked myself this:
00:54:48 of which you are editor and owner.
00:58:33 You know very well the whole town is behind you.
01:03:27 All right, you folks, let's have a little quiet here. Atta boy, George.!
01:06:09 Young man, he didn't trim them.
01:09:10 Thank you. Your witness.
01:12:04 - Tell it, Luther! Tell it! - And when I ran downstairs
01:15:14 Well, I'm sure there is.
01:18:57 Come on.!
01:25:59 Killed them both for the money and then tried to pin it on me!
01:28:49 Atta boy, Luther.!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,109
Dialogue density12.3 lines / min
First line00:01:27
Final line01:28:49
Production Record
DirectorAlan Rafkin
LanguageEnglish
Budget$700,000
IMDb votes7,952