- Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Infobox Film
name = Ghost in the Noonday Sun
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director =Peter Medak
producer = Thomas Clyde
Gareth Wigan
writer = Evan JonesSpike Milligan
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starring =Peter Sellers Spike Milligan
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cinematography =Michael Reed
Larry Pizer
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distributor = Tyburn Entertainment (UK)Columbia Pictures (USA)
released = 1973
runtime = 93 min.
country =U.K.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0070106"Ghost in the Noonday Sun" is a 1973
comedy film , directed byPeter Medak , starringPeter Sellers andSpike Milligan of theGoons . The script was written by Evan Jones and Ernest Tidyman (uncredited) and additional dialogues by Spike Milligan. It was produced by Thomas Clyde and Gareth Wigan and the cinematography was made byMichael Reed and Larry Pizer.Plot summary
A pirate crewman (Sellers) kills his captain after learning where he has hidden buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot. This film marked a kind of return to
Goon humor asSpike Milligan may have contributed some written material.Cast
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Peter Sellers as Dick Scratcher
*Anthony Franciosa as Pierre Rodriguez
*Spike Milligan as Bill Bombay
*Clive Revill as Bay of Algiers
*Peter Boyle as Ras Mohammed
*Richard Willis as Jeremiah
*James Villiers as Parsely-Frack
*Rosemary Leach as Kate
*Thomas Baptiste as Abdullah
*Murray Melvin as Hamldon
*Bill Kerr as GiacomoExternal links
*imdb title|id=0070106|title=Ghost in the Noonday Sun
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