Parody Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed. Perhaps the earliest parody film was the 1922 "Mud and Sand", a Stan Laurel film that made fun of Rudolph Valentino's film "Blood and Sand". Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-1920s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"—parodied in the comic "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as "No, No, Nanette" (1925), parodied as "Yes,
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken on October 4, 2016. On July 12, 2005, Percepto released the soundtrack on Compact Disc. Composer Vic Mizzy used the old tune "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" as his main theme. Mizzy's haunted house organ theme also appeared in the film "Games" (1967). The Ghost and Mr. Chicken The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a 1966 American comedy-drama film starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house, which is located in the fictitious community of Rachel, Kansas. The working title was "Running Scared". The title is presumably a humorous variation of