The Ghost of Peter Sellers

By 1973 Peter Sellers was one of the most accomplished and recognizable comic actors working in the British entertainment industry. He'd already established a notorious reputation for being controlling, moody, and unpredictable by his peers when the young Hungarian-British film director Peter Medak teamed with him to film GHOST IN THE NOONDAY SUN, a 'Goons at sea' tale Medak would describe as "the biggest disaster" of his life. Unable to navigate Sellers' erratic moods, numerous set absences, and destabilizing love affairs while equally ill-prepared to weather open-ocean production fiascoes - Medak's crew mutinied under Sellers' leadership and the film capsized. 43 years later, still wounded and grieving, Medak reexamines the comically doomed production that nearly imploded his promising career with the support of surviving key players and members of Sellers' ever-shifting inner circle.