The Ghost Of Peter Sellers
- 2022 documentary
Documentary film about the problems on the set of Peter Sellers film Ghost In The Noonday Sun. Also features Peter Medak, John Heyman, Norma Farnes, David Korda, Susan Wood and more.
- This film project is currently in development
Press clippings
The Ghost of Peter Sellers review
This documentary tells the mesmerizing story of a horrendous film shoot and the psychological flotsam left in its wake.
Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, 23rd June 2020The Ghost of Peter Sellers review
Peter Medak seems to have made this doc to let himself off the hook for past failure.
William Bibbiani, The Wrap, 8th September 2018The Ghost of Peter Sellers review
"It's only a movie," someone says, but for Medak it feel like much more than that, a major turn in the road, maybe even a life-changer. The emotionalism of the end feels both true and slightly self-indulgent, but the director has made a documentary that's both a mea culpa for his role in a botched enterprise that left no one looking good and an affecting attempt to define a life's turning point.
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter, 4th September 2018How Peter Sellers turned a pirate film into a shipwreck
The 1973 movie Ghost in the Noonday Sun, with Spike Milligan, never reached the big screen. Now its director, Peter Medak, reveals why.
Dalya Alberge, The Guardian, 11th August 2018