Movie Poster Collecting: Don Knotts

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 1966 Don Knotts Australian day bill

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) Australian day bill

This is a 14" x 30" Australian day bill poster for the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken written by James Fritzell, Everett Grenbaum and Andy Griffith and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: In Rachel Kansas, Luther Heggs, a typesetter aspiring to be a reporter for the Rachel Courier Express, is assigned the job of spending the night alone at the Simmons mansion, the site of a murder-suicide 20 years earlier. Despite his terror of being alone in the old mansion at night, with the help of his friend Kelsey [Liam Redmond] Luther is able to determine exactly what happened on that fateful night long ago and who the killer was, before the mansion can be torn down by its owner, Nick Simmons, [Philip Ober] who has just returned to Rachel for that purpose.

Cast and crew: Don Knotts, Dick Sargent, Liam Redmond, Joan Staley, Alan Rafkin, James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles Lane, Jesslyn Fax, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg

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Monday, June 29, 2015

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken written by James Fritzell, Everett Grenbaum and Andy Griffith and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: In Rachel Kansas, Luther Heggs, a typesetter aspiring to be a reporter for the Rachel Courier Express, is assigned the job of spending the night alone at the Simmons mansion, the site of a murder-suicide 20 years earlier. With the help of his friend Kelsey [Liam Redmond] Luther is able to determine exactly what happened on that fateful night long ago and who the killer was before the mansion can be torn down by its owner, Nick Simmons, who has just returned to Rachel for that purpose.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) - (Don Knotts) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1977 Vincent McEveety film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo based on a story by Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson and starring Dean Jones as Jim Douglas and Don Knotts as Wheely Applegate. Plot summary: Dean Jones and his mechanic Wheely Applegate are in Monte Carlo to participate in an international race driving a Volkswagen named Herbie. This Volkswagen has a libido of its own; along with Jim and Wheely it develops romantic interests in other race participants.

Cast and crew: Don Knotts, Dean Jones, Julie Sommars, Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson, Vincent McEveety, Gordon Buford, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Fox, Eric Braeden, Xavier Saint-Macary, Francois Lalande, Alan Caillou, Laurie Main, Mike Kulcsar, Johnny Haymer, Stanley Brock, Gerard Jugnot

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Monday, December 15, 2014

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) Italian four-sheet

This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster designed by Morini to promote the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken based on a story by James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: Luther Heggs, a reporter for a small-town newspaper, is given an assignment to spend a night at an old mansion that had been the scene 20 years earlier of a murder. In the events that follow the identity of the murderer becomes known for the first time.

Cast and crew: Alan Rafkin, James Fritzell, Morini, Everett Greebaum, Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Lliam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles Lane, Jesslyn Fax, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg

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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Gus (1976) - (Don Knotts) US 40x60

Gus (1976) - (Don Knotts) US 40x60 film poster

Pictured is a US 40x60 poster designed to promote the 1976 Vincent McEveety film Gus based on a story by Ted Key and Arthur Aisberg, starring Don Knotts. Plot summary: The California Atoms are a losing football team until they make their mascot Gus, a mule, their star kicker.

Cast and crew: Vincent McEveety, Ted Key, Arthur Aisberg, Edward Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Louise Williams, Dick Van Patten, Ronnie Schell, Bob Crane, Johnny Unitas, Dick butkus, Harold Gould, Tom Bosley, Titos Vandis, Hanna Hertelendy, Liam Dunn