Universal Pictures
Directed by Alan Rafkin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Universal)
Mild mannered typesetter Don Knotts takes a challenge to spend the night in a haunted house in order to advance his newspaper career. He witnesses sliding doors, an organ with bloody fingerprints that plays by itself and a portrait gushing blood, and gains local fame by writing about it. However, the owner of the house sues for slander, leading to a showdown in court. Knotts leads the judge and jury back to the house, but when the strange doings fail to repeat, he is left alone and dejected, until he hears organ music emanating from the house. Loosely based on an episode of the Andy Griffith Show, with many familiar faces from that series in the cast, this feels more like a tv movie. Filmed on the Universal back lot, the Victorian mansion was also the home of the Munsters! Knott's scene as a very nervous public speaker is hilarious.
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