 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Mystery / Romance
aka: Running Scared
Director: Alan Rafkin
Cast: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles(2) Lane, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Jesslyn Fax, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg
Nervous Luther (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at the local newspaper and longs to become a reporter. He gets his chance when, as part of a publicity campaign, he must spend a night in a supposedly haunted house. Fun fare, and Luther even gets the prettiest girl in town, Alma Parker (Joan Staley, a former "Playboy" centerfold).
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 The Music Man 1962  N/R, 151 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, Ron Howard, Charles(2) Lane, Mary Wickes, Rance Howard, Timmy Everett, Susan Luckey, Harry Hickox, William Fawcett, Percy Helton
Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) arrives in River City, Iowa, around 1900. He plans to work a scam on the citizens by forming a boys' marching band, but he falls in love with Marion (Shirley Jones) the librarian and changes his tune. Great Meredith Willson songs include "Seventy-Six Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," "Gary, Indiana," "Till There Was You," "Marian the Librarian," and "Wells Fargo Wagon." An Oscar was awarded for Best Musical Score, and there were five nominations, including Best Picture.
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 Speedway 1968  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Elvis Presley, Bill Bixby, Nancy Sinatra, Gale Gordon, William Schallert, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Ross Hagan, Carl Ballantine, Poncie Ponce, Harry Hickox
Elvis Presley plays a racecar driver in this story revolving around stock car racing. It does feature, as part of the racing scene, real-life racers Richard Petty and Cale Yarborough.
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| 1. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
aka: Running Scared
2. The Music Man (1962)
3. Speedway (1968)
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