Ghost in the Noonday Sun

Ghost in the Noonday Sun is a 1973 British comedy film, directed by Peter Medak, starring Peter Sellers, Anthony Franciosa and Spike Milligan. The script was written by Evan Jones and Ernest Tidyman uncredited with additional dialogue attributed to Spike Milligan. It was produced by Thomas Clyde amp Gareth Wigan with cinematography by Michael Reed amp Larry Pizer. The title and some of the plot details are based on the book of the same title by Newbery Medalwinning childrens author Sid Fleischman.

Shortly after filming began, Peter Sellers began to lose confidence in the project and when Spike Milligan arrived on location to shoot his scenes, Sellers asked him to assess the footage that had been shot thus far. Milligan was unimpressed, which led to Sellers trying to convince Peter Medak to assist him in a scheme to get the production shut down. Medak refused to comply. Sellers subsequently became deliberately uncooperative and would often pretend to be sick, only to be later spotted waterskiing the same day. Sellers caused further upset by agreeing to shoot a cigarette commercial during one of the few offdays in the filming schedule, drafting in an unwilling Peter Medak to direct it, and then on the day refusing to be filmed holding the cigarette packet because he claimed to be the chairman of the AntiSmoking League.Released several years after filming was wrapped and after Sellers death 1980 in the 1980s, the film was semicompleted and released on VHS. The film never received a full cinematic release. ........

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