Quote: EllieS @ 22nd April 2021, 10:25 AMI'd really like to watch that film 'The Ghost of Peter Sellers' - not sure where it's available, though.
You can watch for as little as £4 rental through Vimeo.
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Quote: EllieS @ 22nd April 2021, 10:25 AMI'd really like to watch that film 'The Ghost of Peter Sellers'
You can watch for as little as £0, if you have a savvy son who can download it for you and put it on a memory stick, which my son has done for me.
Or this is on eBay, which I was going to buy................99p + £1.80 post - no bids at the moment.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 25th April 2021, 9:19 AMYou can watch for as little as £0, if you have a savvy son who can download it for you and put it on a memory stick, which my son has done for me.
Or this is on eBay, which I was going to buy................99p + £1.80 post - no bids at the moment.
Oh wow, that's the actual film! I didn't know it had actually been released. Wonder if it lives up to 'Troll 2' and 'The Room' in the so-bad-it's-good category.
Sorry, I meant the documentary Peter Medak made a couple of years ago.
Quote: EllieS @ 25th April 2021, 10:23 AMOh wow, that's the actual film! I didn't know it had actually been released. Wonder if it lives up to 'Troll 2' and 'The Room' in the so-bad-it's-good category.
Sorry, I meant the documentary Peter Medak made a couple of years ago.
DOH! 
You're right of course. Sorry about that. I need new glasses. 
Quote: EllieS @ 25th April 2021, 10:23 AMOh wow, that's the actual film! I didn't know it had actually been released. Wonder if it lives up to 'Troll 2' and 'The Room' in the so-bad-it's-good category.
It's featured at the bottom of the Chronicles article! >_<
https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/ghost_in_the_noonday_sun/shop/5168/ghost_in_the_noonday_sun/
Quote: EllieS @ 25th April 2021, 10:23 AMSorry, I meant the documentary Peter Medak made a couple of years ago.
See my post above!
Quote: Aaron @ 25th April 2021, 11:37 AMIt's featured at the bottom of the Chronicles article! >_<
https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/ghost_in_the_noonday_sun/shop/5168/ghost_in_the_noonday_sun/
See my post above!
Yeah, alright! I made a mistake with my poor eyesight - I am old you know. 
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 25th April 2021, 2:48 PMYeah, alright! I made a mistake with my poor eyesight - I am old you know.
I think that was aimed at me. I stopped reading at the end of the article and didn't see the links underneath. I got the impression that the film was so bad it never got a cinema or video release, but apparently it did.
Quote: EllieS @ 25th April 2021, 3:02 PMI think that was aimed at me. I stopped reading at the end of the article and didn't see the links underneath. I got the impression that the film was so bad it never got a cinema or video release, but apparently it did.
I am now going to have a lie down, as I've lost the plot. Actually, it is my nap time................(now, where's Teddy)
I haven't read this one yet, hopefully they're all in the archive, as there's a few I'd like to read. Most enjoyable one for me so far was the Leonard Rossiter one, but others I have read have been excellent also, Hancock, Steptoe & Son, Frankie Howerd. if a bit near the bone for idols of theirs. They're a bit like a C4 expose, he didn't write those did he? Can he do a Benny Hill one?, although I cringe at what he may come up with. But yes these were all said to be difficult men to work with.
On this film made about the GITNS I'll have to say, surely, with Sellers' reputation, what did he expect, if it turns out he's making a turkey? Sellers was a wannabe director who knew his stuff. I've always been amazed at how many films Sellers did, he evidently turned down nothing until on set he felt it was rubbish and then either tried to take over the production or walked off. But in reality this was only two or three films out of the dozens he did. And were those films really any good, the ones I know of are What's New Pussycat, Casino Royale and GITNS. There are probably others he was difficult on, but these are I thought the only notorious ones. But I'll have to read that expose...
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 26th April 2021, 7:36 AM...................... What's New Pussycat, Casino Royale and GITNS. There are probably others he was difficult on, but these are I thought the only notorious ones. But I'll have to read that expose...
Was never impressed with The Magic Christian, which had both my comedy heroes in it - Sellers, of course, and Milligan in a lesser part, but who was probably the funniest thing in it as a traffic warden booking Sellers' limo.
Good one this week.The sad tale of Frankie Howard's wig.
"Baldness, back then, was deemed a bad thing by the showbusiness big-wigs."............
Quote: john tregorran @ 3rd June 2021, 12:07 AMGood one this week.The sad tale of Frankie Howard's wig.
"Baldness, back then, was deemed a bad thing by the showbusiness big-wigs."............
Yes, excellent as always from Graham McCann, being very funny and poignant, and I like his comparison with wigs then and teeth now since baldness is no longer an issue.
I am a complete loss to understand WHY someone, who had a perfectly good set of teeth (Jimmy Carr, being a classic example) and have them made to look like they are wearing false teeth, which surely defeats the object. OK, Carr did admit his teeth were OTT at the time and he later had them "toned down", so they weren't so glaringly white, but there are many others who look just plain stupid.
Which reminds me of a link that made me look again, maybe it's just me, but I was watching a clip of a younger Benny Hill in his BBC days and if it wasn't in b&w I would've thought it was Jimmy Carr. A really uncanny resemblance. I thought at the time anyway, will have to youtube it again. Very funny bit as well.
And he also used false nashers, June Whitfield told a funny story about bumping into him in a street in London while he was trying to look anonymous in a disguise, something he did quite a lot apparently. But she knew it was him because he was wearing his vicar's teeth that she'd been in a sketch with him wearing. 
Another brilliant one by Graham McCann on Barry Cryer "The Master Craftsman"
I've saved this one with one or two of the others to read when I'm less apt to nodding off early. Recently enjoyed the Cook, Moore, and Allen in Aus one which I knew nothing of before.