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DVD The Ghost And Mr. Chicken
Remember watching this silly little comedy from your childhood? It may not have aged all that well, but is still goofy, good fun. Okay, so you can spot the stunt double, and Don Knotts's twitches are a little more obvious. Still, fans of his familiar routines will be comforted in knowing they can again watch their skinny underdog hero solve the ghost story while winning the prettiest girl in town. Knotts plays a trembling typesetter hoping to become a reporter by cracking the mystery of the local haunted house. To do so, he must spend a night there. Good-hearted, non-threatening, and completely gooey, this is the equivalent of light-weight cinematic junk food. -- Rochelle O'Gorman
Is there a movie that showcases the dark recesses of Don Knots' mind? Yes, and it is called "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken".
If you ever wanted to see the interworkings of a dark genius THIS IS THE MOVIE!
Don Knots is the everyman we all know, fighting to keep his sanity in a world that is rapidly becoming more and more advanced without him.
Is it about a ghost? On one level yes, but doesn't the ghost that haunts Mr. Chicken represent American's post-WWII fascination with Soviet Russia and in some way speak to the darker ego/id of all our psyche?
Who knows! That's the mark of this masterpiece.
Don't just buy or rent this; BECOME it.
Why don't you run up an alley and holler fish!
I have a fond place in my heart for this movie, so I'll try to be straight with this review. I just noticed the outrageous price this DVD is fetching all of the sudden. Glad I got it when I did for like $10. Anyway, I've been watching this movie since I was a kid and I can't say enough good things about it. Don Knotts breakout performance. This and Mr. Limpit and How To Frame A Figg are like the Knotts trinity. Sure, Apple Dumpling Gang and Private Eyes were good too, but this is the crown jewel. I introduced this movie to my daughters and my younger one loved it, just as I did when I first saw it all those years ago. Fast-paced and hilarious, Knotts just keeps 'em coming. Just mortar, stone and wood! Shears in the throat! I know the dialogue like the back of my hand. All the characters fit so well together. So visit Rachel, Kansas and see what's going on in the old Simmons' house and hell, spend the 20th anniversary of the murder/suicide along with Luther Haig and a gaggle of side-splitting situations. Enjoy, for they don't make movies like this any more.
Can You Curb Your Tongue For A Few Minutes?
After I read the other reviews of TGAMC I had to add my own. What can I say? I know this film is as cornball as you can get, but that's why I love it! And I absolutely love Don Knotts! Please, please don't ever remake this film. This movie is just as funny now as it was 40 years ago. Who can forget "I'm having chicken noodle soup with Alma." Or the courtroom scene. Charles Lane: "Can you curb your imagination for a few minutes?" Don Knotts: "Can you curb your tongue for a few minutes?" "Atta boy, Luther?" I was amazed by all the people who said how creepy the organ music was (and still is)! I know. I know. It still gets to me. And I'm 54! And I remember how scared I was when Luther ran down the stairs and saw the garden shears in Mrs. Simmons' throat and the blood running down. Just a really good, clean movie. We need more of these.
Ever wonder what would happen if the imaginary worlds of Bedknobs and Broomsticks and SpongeBob SquarePants were to collide? If so, chances are good you've yet to discover The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Starring the irrepressible Don Knotts, this 1964 family feature combines live (land) action and animated (undersea) sequences with delightful results. During World War II, Knotts is mild-mannered, spectacle-sporting bookkeeper Henry Limpet. More than anything--he's a fish fan and a patriot. When the navy rejects him due to poor eyesight, he falls into a funk from which not even his beloved aquarium or loving--if bossy--wife can rescue him. So he makes a wish... to become a fish. Next thing he knows--he is! With a little help from a hermit crab named Crusty and the lovely... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Arthur Lubin DVD Release Date: Released the 01 October 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Once again Leonard Maltin is wrong, wrong, wrong (see above). You either like Don Knotts or you don't. For those who do, and there are millions of us, his comedies from the 1960s like "The Reluctant Astronaut" are very entertaining, and, yes, very funny films.
I grew up in the 1960s and "The Reluctant Astronaut" was another of those Don Knott's comedies that the whole family was taken to the drive-in theatre on a Friday night. For Leonard Maltin to call this childish is an unfair statement. I'm almost forty now and I still LOVE watching this movie as every bit as I did back in '67. I would never pay a dime to see Leonard Maltin act and I always turn the channel whenever he comes on television with one of his one sided reviews.
What is funnier than seeing Knott's up in space opening a... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Edward Montagne DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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When Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushings (played by Barbara Rhoades) is captured after a stagecoach holdup, she is unexpectedly offered a pardon, if she will help the government by finding out who is running guns to the Indians. When her contact, who is to go undercover with her as her husband, turns up with a bullet through him, Penny needs a new husband and quick! She needs someone dumb and easily manipulated, someone like...Dr. Jesse Haywood (Don Knotts), a dentist dude from back East, who wants to spread the gospel of oral health in the West! Under Penny's watchful eye, Doc Haywood begins a life of danger and renown. Now, if only he can stay alive long enough to enjoy it. [Color, released in 1968, with a running time of 1 hour, 41 minutes.]
This is a very funny, family-friendly movie.... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Alan Rafkin DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There's an austere housekeeper, a snooty butler with compulsive twitches, a sexy upstairs maid, a deformed groomsman, and a buxom young heir to the estate, who of course is going to be in some state of undress before the movie is over. People get killed, their bodies disappear, Knotts and Conway wander aimlessly through secret passageways, dimly seeking some way out of this movie. Conway cowrote... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Tim Conway - Don Knotts Director(s): Lang Elliott DVD Release Date: Released the 10 October 2000 Usually ships in 6 to 8 days
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With "The Ghost And Mr.Chicken" a very close second..........the scenes in this movie are just a hoot, especially the ones in the diner and the bowling alley. Even though Don is still in his Barney Fife personna, the nervous, lovable fool; you still get your money's worth here. He even has a drunken scene, watch for him trying to hang up the mink coat and the explanation given for the secretary's numerous minks! Love the ending, too. What a wonderful cast, the same familiar catchy music from his other Universal films and repeated gags. You will howl with laughter. Even though we all were sad when he left The Andy Griffith Show after only five years, thank goodness he signed with Universal to do these type of comedies, and with Disney to pair with the likes of Tim Conway, too!!! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Alan Rafkin DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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