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The Ghost of Peter Sellers

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 33m
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6.7/10
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Peter Sellers, Peter Medak, and Spike Milligan in The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
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A comedy genius, a hot new director and a 17th Century pirate film. What could possibly go wrong?A comedy genius, a hot new director and a 17th Century pirate film. What could possibly go wrong?A comedy genius, a hot new director and a 17th Century pirate film. What could possibly go wrong?

  • Director
    • Peter Medak
  • Stars
    • Peter Medak
    • Joe Dunne
    • Simon van der Borgh
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    527
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Peter Medak
    • Stars
      • Peter Medak
      • Joe Dunne
      • Simon van der Borgh
    • 9User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins

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    Peter Medak
    Peter Medak
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    Joe Dunne
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    Simon van der Borgh
    Simon van der Borgh
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    Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers
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    • (archive footage)
    Spike Milligan
    Spike Milligan
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Norma Farnes
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    Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole
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    • (archive footage)
    Louis M. Heyward
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Deke Heyeard)
    Susan Wood
    • Self
    John Heyman
    • Self
    Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    John Goldstone
    • Self
    David Korda
    • Self
    Ruth Myers
    • Self
    Robin Dalton
    • Self
    Tony Greenberg
    • Self
    Dennis Fraser
    • Self
    Piers Haggard
    • Self
    • Director
      • Peter Medak
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    5/10
    Indecorous Pity Party
    Director Peter Medak journey's into dwell hell with this documentary about a film making disaster (Ghost in the Noonday Sun, 74) well over two generations old. Based on a flimsy idea and fraught with problems from the outset with its biggest, the superstar lead, Peter Sellers. An excellent example of how not to make a movie, one is left to wonder where the interest lies in a film that barely saw the light of days in theatres and a diva star dead 40 years.

    In the early 70s director Peter Medak was riding high after guiding Peter O'Toole to an Oscar nomination in The Ruling Class. Approached by Sellers with an idea for a pirate picture dreamed up with famed Goon Show performer Spike Milligan, Medak and his pirate ship headed for Cyprus, where in classic foreshadowing the drunken captain promptly ran it aground. From there it was all downhill with an out of control Sellers putting the production behind schedule almost immediately. Late, seasick, Sellers eventually feigned a heart attack to go out with a royal back in England with matters only deteriating further upon his return.

    Medak provides archival material as well as reunite with some of the surviving members of the production unanimous in praising Seller's talent as well as his difficult and churlish ways. Producing memories more akin to nausea than nostalgia Medak frustratingly whines over the debacle and his love/hate relationship with Sellers whose ghost haunts him to this day and it soon grows tiresome. Pete should have read his Omar Kayyam before embarking on this "dead yesterday." Ghost is an indecorous pity party.
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    • Release date
      • January 3, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Cyprus
    • Official site
      • Official site (Cyprus)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Peter Sellers'ın Hayaleti
    • Filming locations
      • Ayia Napa, Cyprus
    • Production company
      • Vegas Media
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      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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