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Hello and welcome to goon pod this week.
Chris diamond and I are talking about the 1973 disaster movie
Ghost in the Noonday Sun, this follows hot on the heels of last
week's episode where we talked about the 2016 feature-length
documentary, The Ghost of Peter Sellers, which was inspired by
the troubling, experience that director, Peter medic had in
making that film. So we join the conversation
where Chris is about to vent. There's a few, I think there's a
few things that I mentioned before.
It is kind of not only don't like that, but I kind of resent
it. And one of the things that
bothers me about it is because this is nothing to do with the
film itself. I suppose there's a bear on
fear. And I get Duck's back into the
documentary. Is that John Heyman?
The the financial game mentions the he was like spending plates
on like 10 other Productions and this was a Columbia financed
Fillmore was to be distributed by Columbia and there's a
British film. And what, what bothers me is
that this was a period. There was a that actually was a
film industry. Where the offices of for, in
London, for 20th Century, Fox and Colombian Paramount, and the
rest of them were actual dementia streams with taxes and
them. They were actual production
offices and phones were being made.
So it's sort of not sure. But when the would somebody find
his about, with one, some hunch, because it should have been just
a better film, Anyway that's that's that's sort of just the
background to it so anyway that but you go into it called and
I'm set watching it and took a few notes.
As I went I will share them with you.
Go ahead. so, first of all, I hate the make some singers.
Doesn't your I got the door. Only one wrong down from the
king's singers, in my personal kind of hatred of that sort of
thing. So now I'd actually because the
song the opening song which was written by dick boys, bro.
Yes it's actually quite funny and if it's been given a proper,
you know, how you all. But you clearly was writ to be,
you know, payment romp song with people shouting and clicking
tank guns. And sung like Robert yet, but
probably much better anyway. They sell copter shop.
This is what I've written down, silent and true and true way too
long. Yeah, having the conceit of a
sort of silent film at the start you know with the thing I
thought was quite funny and kind of waste Peter Boyle but it just
something right. Peter Boyle is gets quite High
billing in this film and you expect are going to see.
You're going to see it. Look at least five to ten
minutes of Peter Boyle in the film.
All right you see about what you maybe.
See half a minute s all in black and white silent.
Yes flickering Ejection fraction and crying.
These can see, I like that part. It's just goes on and on and on.
Well then, do you think that the medic should have should have,
could we get introduced through the, through the intertitles to
yeah, the central character which is Peter Sellers playing
dick scratcher. Thanks scratch on.
My scratch, is how it is, right? You know what you, you know, you
just know. But first of all, the sailors
probably came up with that name. If he didn't then my like a dead
at some point. Again, I think that Milligan
did. I'm sure I'm sure he did.
And, and say, I was just as hell going to it and I bet you that
that scratch of the pirate is all he thought of for this
phone. I think that's what stuff to do.
I bet you setting then, you know, some some groovy coffee,
hope you listen to Lonnie Donegan records, you know, we
should do pick a phobic scratching to pay, they'll be
wholly. It is Anyway silent.
But it just goes on for too long as you see with the entity to
has a number of respite because you kind of feel that when this
film actually starts, you know, after when it becomes out the
cabin and it's in color of a sudden and youth and you're
like, and then, you know what sort of unfolds a bet.
And you think if I coming at this from half an hour and
Because you who are these people?
You know, I know they all did back and wait fingers to push
the introduce everybody and what they, and what the basic premise
of the film is. But it doesn't really.
And also Services character is not very first of all, the look
with Ian and all that sort of thing.
I just found a really unappealing.
Yeah, I do too. You know, it's not funny.
It looks nasty. And yeah, it is there's nothing
to warm to about his accent as Irish accent for him.
It's really pure. He's a got much better idea.
Strikes had been up the creek. You know, it's not like you can
do it. It's also largely inaudible a
lot of the type of no idea what seen a lot of the time, it's
raining. So that the bad doesn't help
because he's it's the work that you've got all the way through
it. So that was the second.
The next thing I do is immediate racist joke is the second thing
comes out of the cabin is in the, the the black guy is
Abdullah kind of member isn't it?
Oh, Abdullah. Yes, yeah, he then immediately
capture Simon Robson. They looks at his hand as if
he's rubbing it off. I like.
Oh, yeah. Hilarious.
Then then, then I've got Ireland.
Question mark. Well, you see in the ghost of
yourself, then they could, you know, the clearly Feldman.
And in the Greek Islands Cyprus, wasn't it?
Yeah, yes, I do. And I did support supposedly,
it's Island. He said it, but you said about
you said about sellers, sellers, Irish accent being ropey, not
quite as rho p, as the young Lads, Irish accent.
Well at least it well to be fair to the lad, Jeremiah who
actually is one of the better things in it because he's quite
a good just great good but at least you can't blame him for
his accent. He's not a world-renowned you
know, medical maybe 6:30. Light on the show.
I agree ground on the shore. City him Halloween in you.
Speak the Greek, say to him alone.
Degree that's who He's deaf a lot of dams Greeks goes, death
young. I know that personally.
What language is ajar speaking sir?
He's talking to you in your native, Greek, your Higgins and
his wine. Well, this is not Grace sir.
This is awesome. I love you.
God bless all here. Let's God bless all here.
I'm descended from the Kings. You know, I didn't know they'd
20 francs, use appearance. And the first leg of the donors,
he looks like the sort of person you're introduced to when you're
a kid as your uncle, but don't your real Uncle I should have
cooked or is no, you're a local. When you say that, do you mean
uncle's that? When your Dad's away on the oil
rig? He's under these succession of
uncles that turn up to visit your mum?
Well, maybe we both swords, don't think of them.
Like you don't like your dad comes up after a football game.
She'll go Alec. Yeah, they you have to see
somebody just like who's that the co-ed who was there?
Well, my uncle Alex. Nobody was cool.
He's just under some tanks. He's just somebody who tells up
drunk with my dad. The video it again or somebody
from the rock. You know, whatever.
He just has that. Look, that's lately Spike.
Smoky, beer smelly. You don't need us to study
disreputable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The person, your dad knows that somehow your meter is running
backwards. Or how did you get that car
fixed? So cheaply sort of thing.
But she don't come to when he's not your uncle.
I've only ever known Tony, does it friend T Frankfurter your
friend coz sorry I've only ever known him from reading a
thousand sellers biographies over the years.
You know, he's only ever beat bit.
I've only ever been aware of him because each cell has biography
will set aside. You know.
Yeah. Half a chapter, to go to the
London in the Noonday Sun. Sure.
And it's mean, and how he is, and how he fell out with all
your friends yours. Yeah yeah.
So I've never known in ferment and it looks as you know look at
his IMDb page and all the rest of it.
I've not I don't think of it. I've seen him or seen him in a
film or a television program. No apart from this to be fair I
know he's married to Shelley Winters at one point.
Yeah she took em. Remember her telling a story
about how Marlon Brando took her to the hospital when she was
having a and she was having a baby and join you and she would
it was when she was married to When your friends yours.
I mean the bit just as an aside as if he wasn't worth it at all
anymore about and also if he had it was nominated for an Oscar in
late 1960 or something for some middle infielder but you know
when you look at his IMDb credits, he's in all these films
that you've never seen, you know, it phones with names like
you know Blood on the water or hard hat in Paris, you know any
collection of one solid names you can think of you know it was
hell out there Cypress at midnight or anything.
Any of the it could be anything. And then he started and he said,
what's up, ladies and Taylor things and whatever you think is
a, you know, he's just one of those, nothing wrong with it.
You just one of those actors that sudden all these films that
you've never seen. There's lots of them but and
they don't Begin by to the documentary.
Just like, oh they start out as bait, piles and then You know,
there's an awful lot of talking about and then he stands up to
Sailors, then he never talks to him again and all that sort of
thing, you know. Like, all right, well, it's not
exactly, you know, it's not exactly awesome.
Whales on to see the real, you know, facing them down showing
me 20 francs, you always, are who's above our.
It doesn't really make much of an impact in the film, to be
honest with the. The one thing you can say about
Sailors that is undeniable as when he's on-screen Tell us what
you're looking at. No matter how badly made up, he
has, or no matter who, I know what he is, he's the person,
your eye is drawn to because you're waiting for them to do
something or see something or whatever.
He has a star, it was always a star and he's the central point
of any frame that he said. So then I start you start to
realize or older, I started to see what barely or I don't know,
10 15 minutes into it and you can you start to feel the hand
of Milligan? You start to see the hand of
Milligan things. because the Tombstone in the cemetery.
That says, whatever the name is our brain died of alcoholism
113. Thank God.
Yeah. This is a very straightforward
Mellie can chalk. That was probably you know where
the peanut the series of pacune if he'd made it.
So then you know what I saw in the graveyard scene sellers at
one point says we'll all be murdered in our Graves.
Yes yes. Which which I suspect Pecked
wasn't necessarily A Milligan ISM or Milligan.
Addition, I think sellers possibly just added that because
it's a line that he remembered from the goons.
Well, as slightly adapted line remembered from the Goon show
days that's available. But you see I think that's a
very serious thing because he only you'll often you know and
interviews or in a cameo appearances or whatever.
He'll use legs that were Milligan's lights the he's just
sort of appropriated. Because you know, because why
wouldn't they, you know, that's good.
Because then there's that we of course that was the period that
they were almost sort of. Merged into one person.
So it just seems just would seem natural.
That's the way because he always learned how to how to talk in a
funny way from Mulligan who you know, like he provided them of
vocabulary for the sort of like if you want to be asked about
tense because We just mention because we're getting to the
point in the film, The kid, right?
Okay. What I don't understand and it's
completely bolted on. That sellers or sorry.
Dick. Yeah.
Besides for no for no reason. They are.
Jeremiah the Young, The Young Lad Kelly.
See ghosts. Okay, why does he wears?
He got that. I don't.
He said, he says, just like me old shipmate.
Billy Bombay will come to, yeah, but, yeah, but why does he
decide that? Obviously, for the purposes of
the plot, he had the film disabled that he has to.
Yes. And I think, I think that that's
But it's one of the most egregious things that can happen
in the film. Is that something happens
because the film needs it to happen.
And I think the best way that the best thing that I can think
of is, it's because for some reason, there's washed the
sheets drying next to the cemetery and frost in the middle
of the night and because the film needs them to be needs,
Jeremiah to be cover than a sheep because of the wind.
So you get all of these very Clunk Ali put together bits
where he's in the Symmetry because he's chasing after
Jeremiah doesn't why he's suddenly always into Wendy, it's
terribly, Wendy and those washing their.
So then the we guy disappears. But here be reappears behind
her, because she is born over them.
So, we know there's a ghost there.
So Jeremiah can see ghosts except extract you seen the
ghost as well. It's really official.
Cold-blood, Deeds, good, stupid. But they did we that's that they
need, they need the Lord to be able to see ghosts and that's
the best they could do. But again, you just, it's like
you said, as he suddenly starts to mention all the time, like me
old meet Billy Bob. Because because we have to get,
we have to build silat Milligan at least as thought.
Well, if I'm going to been at later, I better be Nation.
That's point. Yeah, I just owe the person.
I was thinking I was worried by this point so I'm thinking we're
half an hour or more into the film, maybe not quite, but I'm
thinking was no sign of Milligan yet.
Yeah. And I'm thinking he to boil got
quite High billing and we all saw him for 30 seconds is as I
can with the same with Milligan, are we going to get a minute of
Milligan? We got more so that I've left, I
have read constant basis of billable be shoehorned.
Talking about are outtakes or at least things happening that went
scripted. But what to?
Well, when they, when Jim's values, hey, yes.
Hey, and your man. What's this VC or even Marie?
Melvin, Melvin Melvin, he's crazy.
Wonderful, I love him. I do like, I do like have the in
the documentary, how he Explains all of these wonderful scenes
that you said that I can't just no hope but not better if they,
where people don't. If people don't listen to this,
don't can't associate. Who Mary.
Melvin is, if anyone's seen the film Barry Lyndon, they will
know he's the very, very slim, very tall, very sort of feline
featured, man, with actor with flared nostrils.
Flared nostrils, very He looking you'd see him.
You wouldn't, you wouldn't forget him.
No, you're in. Forget him.
In the street. He still, he still going.
He's 19 now. No, it would you say when in the
in the documentary, he's very Dapper and he's very oh yes.
Very, very, very Prim. Yeah, and he's talking about the
film that he says, he's clearly, he clearly found the whole thing
rather odious. What was the day when, when spy,
Mike took over and and he had the shot where it was, it wasn't
a bigotry to be in it because it wasn't in the script and I know
I refused which which was Spike didn't really like when he made
everybody dress up a spike Milligan's but years of cleaning
your captain and 40 years ago. I promised you a sight of the
desert and half of the time I couldn't tell who is who and
which is Spike and I completely lost him.
So I have to say spike, you better are you?
And then he got them trained, all the others they were
answering with his voice James valios for other people.
Again is a I mean you just had a whole career of playing sort of
pompous, operant class, English classes and everything from this
to Rumpole of the Bailey, you know, just do.
You would recognize Viking if you saw whether the one of
those? Excellent actors is just you
need two people to be very good. And since you know, those kind
of parts and he was always Those very good those parts but the
board the ship for some reason, you know, the Royal Navy had a
pant layout section. For some seem seem overly
concerned with what's happened to your Irish child and a
scouring. The Seas for them, for bizarrely
the board, the pirate ship, Hijinks ensue and then as
they're rushing to leave because they think those are what the
red plague. They say they've got messed up
adults of the faces. Which yeah, you don't see them
put on its official, its proper name is the Kratt look right.
Yes, sorry she's straightforward.
Yeah so the going over going to go and as the run down the the
ladder from the big ships, The Forecastle at the tube dick, who
knows? Yeah.
Janesville has his tricorn hat comes off.
And he grabs it and then one sweet gums and puts it back of
his head as he's running and I thought, wow, that wasn't
scripted. Well done.
Well done, fellas that's saved everybody.
Another take. Yeah but J as you see that's
about the under about half an hour in a 40 almost 40 minutes
in and that's what I'm that's the sort of thing that I'm being
left in autism. One of the one of the few decent
things I suppose you could call it that came out of this film.
Yeah, was an advert. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. I was going to come to that.
Yeah, well, I want to mention it now, because it is available on
YouTube. It was very well received at the
time. It's an advert for Benson &
Hedges. Yeah, I know tell you how reason
it was as well. Well, here's the thing.
Kristen might be the same, you might be bold, okay?
So I was a huge fan when I was a kid of, are you being served?
There you go. That's right.
That's what I was going. All right?
And there's There's a episode of.
Are You Being Served where? Yep, it pays to advertise.
Is it that one, right? Okay, I can get the clip from
that, then it's when Captain de looking at ways of advertising
Grace periods or something like that, you have had some peacock
suggest. He says there's a very funny
advert where Spike Milligan jumps through a boat shrimps
with Robin Vos then. Then you have the whole Prasad
production of an advert on the shop floor of Jesus.
Brother's and the rehearsal and so forth, which is very funny
and the short, two young, my sister Grace and he said his
I that when I want when I first saw that and I didn't know about
this, advert, I'd ever seen the advert.
No, me neither. So I didn't know and it wasn't
until relatively recently I said, in the last 10 years or
so. Yeah, that I see, I've finally
seen the advert on. Yeah, she bought whatever.
It's, yeah, it mildly amusing. It's quite, you know, the Sure
Milligan and doing his thing and sellers doing his thing.
And and, and it's weird how it came about because basically
they were the. So the halfway through filming
that goes in the Noonday sun and sellers goes to mimetic and
says, look, I've been asked to make an advert.
I'm getting I'm getting paid 50 Grand and a Mercedes that's like
a quarter of a million quid. No, yeah, yeah, it's a huge
amount of money. Spike's getting 25 Grand.
Yeah. And we think we can probably get
James Villiers for 55 grand and and medic.
We, he asked medic, if you agree to direct it and and medic does
kind of, you know, thinking that it might calm the situation at
might. Yeah.
I'm back on stage. Everybody with powers again.
Yeah. So they so they film it that
they filmed on location where they are.
Yep. And the premise is that there's
stealing gold bullion from some V.
Yeah. And to stifle the, the alarm.
Yeah. These are my God.
Uh, yeah, use a packet of village.
And so the filming this, and then the, the climactic bit
where they've got the gold spikes.
Got the gold-laden about his Overcoat.
Yep. So medx is sellers, right?
Will you grab the grab the packet?
Yeah, only one seller says. I can't do that data.
Yeah, I can't do that but you don't, you know, I'm chairman of
the anti-smoking league and Medics and what the hell you
talkin about? Yeah I can't be seen to be
holding a packet of cigarettes so met accessor.
So he goes to spike and it's a spike.
We want you to grab the packet so I can grab the baguette.
I'm the assistant chairman love you.
And then, eventually the coiiege is was like, yeah, it's fine,
I'll do it. It was, I always knew Milligan
anti-smoking was when Americans bit hobby horses.
Yeah, I just had no idea Sailors was on the same, it seemed
totally different every time you surprised.
Did he give them out there after the heart attacks in perfectly,
right? That is be made out to the to
Ash yet. The Gallagher's relate 9.
I was what was it? That but that touches it.
So that is one what? One successful sort of
by-product. I suppose.
This Phil's voice don't have. I mean, it's incredible that
when you think of how you would shoehorn and filming a
commercial. You know, three, presumably for
worldwide Distribution on somebody else's phone said,
presumably using their take questions and film stock.
Now, they just have a handed over and everybody thinks that
it's okay, because that's how that's the that's the neck Loop
here, and we do accident in time.
Well, as normal, you know, she only the normal lines of us
know, well, or at least what you give Annie Yeah, my guess.
You know what? My God this is.
So he was, he was gonna buy him a bit of credit at the bank of
servers. But no, yeah, sort of get about
your chips in this, you know, you know, I might actually do
some work tomorrow but nope, that didn't work.
The only thing, the only thing is no, don't know whether it
inspired the scene in the film or the scene in the film,
inspired the end, but this is seen in the film West.
This isn't it jumps? Yeah, bottom of the boat.
Yeah, yeah. He jumps over the jumps to the
bottom of the boat yard as it may be.
Maybe the thought I will Majors that, what means we'll do that
again? Actually, the number of times
Sailors jumps into the water is, I think quite surprised and I'm
not sure of his head. What if it's bit more tomorrow?
Somebody, but it certainly looks like John Joe done.
It was sellers stunt double as well.
For certain scenes was like, I mean, really, I mean, it sounds
looks like Salient because the especially the one we are the
chasing chasing the gifts, sort of the dock.
And he's Lee's off the very few, the proud, the very front of the
ship. And it was simply looks like of
shouting and screaming and then falling into the water.
I mean, don't get me wrong. The water looks lovely.
But I'm not sure what you drop any of the wadden sea and a
troubled production bit or anyway.
Anyway the other little bit while will go through all these
two groups as we see with them. When you pack apartment I'm from
other. We are.
But why do the few things that bothers me, particularly a bit
of actual, the way it's made, is this gummy this, the actual film
itself is, you know, you'd see it looks nice and it's been made
probably the best way it could be, you know, it's not an
ugly-looking film. But it uses speed it up called
media footage for comedy effect, which is I absolutely hate and
80 phone. I hate.
And, and when they have that sort of a fight scene, you know,
with the there's a sort of Mary Celeste, should comes aside and
it turns out to be a checking all these courses, John Boehner
who have been really dressed like Knights Templar or
something and they have a sort of fight scene on the deck of
the ship and will force the, it's really bad.
They do it speeded up, which I anyway, I eat, but it's actually
a really an ethically made facing, you know, there's no
dynamism to it was lots of shorts.
We see people just standing about it.
It's really badly need. Yeah.
The doc seen the doc sequence, which actually is quite funny.
One of the things that Which is the better is that they'll and
the vendor at the end of it. It's clearly.
But you know whether the what long ship the long bolt, it's
clearly right. At the beach.
You can see the waves lapping on the beach.
Oh yeah, the other no out, it's icky.
No. But the sort of going backwards
and forwards across the scene with, you know, with he's got a
gun accident, he's got a good, they blow it out the water and
all that is actually. One of the few the few sequences
that kind of works. There's another couple of lines
from gun shows that sellers. Yeah, little dick.
Dick speaks, like he's looking at a map.
One point. He says, the blue bits are the
see in the brown bits of the land.
Yeah, he's when he's trying to make Abdullah walk the plank,
he's going poke poke poke. Ya Blue Bottle s.
Yeah, by the way, Abdullah. Yeah, your Coronation Street
fans. So do you know about his his
role in Coronation Street? Well, was she one of the
brothers McGregor? No, he was, he was the first
parent. He was the first black character
in Coronation Street in 63, or 64.
You all, that's about to be before I could work out because
I knew, I knew, I knew him from something, I'm confusing them
with later on later on there was, there were a couple of
characters called up in. There were two brothers.
Go, big, Leaguers me the job because 66 sitcom.
Yeah, and I just wondered because I know that I think the
act of the black height of the Corn is just wasn't the same as
in the second, which I think was probably reading, but anyway,
oh, that's fascinating, I can't do that.
Yeah, talking of black characters, they claim Revel
tons up here still a lot stiffer by the way, still alive.
Yes, tell him I fite me. Oh, yeah.
The interwebs the be of out, this used to be of algae, is it?
Phil corkle Are again from quite High billing.
And hardly at all is to scenes of think, right?
I see them to love. I love him because I love him.
I really enjoy Clyde River when it everything I see him and he's
very rarely bad. Yo, yo films.
Yeah, he's a great actor, quavery, whatever.
And when you think, you know, is an well famously He's the
original voice of the input of an Empire Strikes Back.
That's, that's the thing that sort of his need kids are still
gets mentioned about. He's a fantastic body and
episode of Columbo. The IRA guy I am yeah, really,
really sort of a poet whose Ruiz you know who's survived a
troubled and he's he's actually secretly gotten run into to
Northern Ireland, is probably than that.
He is, he's good and he's really good in bunny.
Lakers missing, he's green by the week is missing.
He's also good in the film which I'm sure you can't show know and
whatever data sources messing with Peter said, with Pierre
used to often feel, you know, keep top eyes.
You're not going to believe this.
You're not going to believe this, right?
I watched that or sorry. I watched 20 minutes of hats?
Yeah, about four days ago, five days ago because my son has
Access to as firestick. I think they call it Chris, the
fire study cells. He downloaded an app that you
really robbed because of the Fire Sticks, you can see it.
Yeah. And you can access he's
downloaded some sort of app where you can you can pretty
much watch any film that's ever made.
Well not, not really but, you know, not sure.
Yeah, is that? But I don't and I was just like
I just literally just sort of thinking through just seeing
what there was. And I thought one of our
dinosaurs is missing. I've never seen now.
I'll just stick that on Just for it just because Derek Nimmo is
in it with all. Yeah.
Ariana and yeah it's just a bit of 20 minutes and I thought
there was something else I think because of watched it like
Christmas when I was a kid and things and the cast list is an
unending flow. Helen Hayes joins you Hmm dead
it. Gala where it's one of those
things we are. I could have, you see it?
Knowing you think? And I think to myself, well, I
kind of find it hard to believe, anybody could really be offended
by something as silly as this, but at the same time thinking.
Yeah, well, yeah, I feared off of people aren't stuck anyway
because not surprised because he even has the music scene that
sort of, d@dd, d@dd, d@dd. They did it.
You know, it's like Phil Lord even has like the sort of
Chinese Takeaway for one, you know.
But Clover never was very good at it, but in any case you'll
eat again, but as we see here that about is get quite High
building and he has the one seen in the courtyard and then one
scene and linked with 20 friends yours and you're mine from
Keynesian sleep. That's it.
Yeah, this is full and by the way, by this time, I have
literally no idea with Klaus. I don't know what to do.
I don't know where we are. Why we're going?
We're going with the treasurer's.
I've no idea what the ghost bet is to do ghosts in and it no
idea what that means. You know, it's just literally
have no idea what's going on in the song by this point.
We did the other than it's, the only reason that that dick
scratcher hasn't had his throat slit from ear to ear by the
crew. Yeah, it's because he'd always
with the treasurer's. Well, yeah, he says he knows but
he's got this map with disappearing ink.
So even he doesn't know where it is anymore.
So his his idea is that this he's invested Jeremiah with the
power. Oh yeah.
Persuasion that he can see dead people.
But the problem with that, the problem with that is the crude
know. That he needs Jeremiah to see
the ghost of Peter Boyle, so he can find the treasure.
So we know. He doesn't know where the
treasure is. Yeah.
However, exactly but it is, a is a child who sees dead people
Saul. That's your cue sixth sense to
you. Oh no.
Yeah. See, I was when I was watching
this quiz and I thought oh yeah it's a child boy.
Who can see dead people. I wonder I wonder if M Night
Shyamalan. What his name is Emerson ever
saw a fifth-generation old VHS of go Sunday Sun at all.
I said, I don't want that idea. Hmm, maybe not but but, but the
other thing is then you've got Billy Bombay turns up, which is
hereby canceled. So we all know the old me, melon
ball. Be yeah.
Yeah. And at one point when Spike,
when Billy spots dick he says it's that smelly old see goon?
Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah I did that entire scene. Is especially the way AIDS is
clearly just been made up on the roof there.
You know, I decided, you know what it's actually it does lift,
the film does lift a bit, because at least the something
different is happening in it. I got tration a my own treasure
treasure treasure treasure. And I know the exact same.
What listen, I'll give you one last chance to do.
Will you come with me or not? Well, I thought, you know,
because I didn't like you, I was worried that you wouldn't really
see very much American, but then I thought, well, no always going
to go with them and then they'll be sort of hijinks, you know,
you know, wake came available, be able like a sort of chaise.
Are you thinking trying to take over the ship and none of that?
None of that happened. He turns up with his brothers.
For some reason he turns up with his brothers, we all dress I'd
sound like him and there's and the documentary Peter me tank.
Billboards. The fact that when they were
filming it, he had no idea of Fitch what with some helping him
and actually it's really difficult to tell.
Yeah. Yeah.
Then there's something a bit. No, I should point out to your
relief in the relief of the West knows.
This is where I stopped taking notes because I just couldn't be
bothered anymore. because it just is sayings and to sort of
Soup of where are we going? And what on the island that he
knows for the treasure know? He knows for the trees at.
That's not all trajan. It's up yet and it just becomes
a mess but it doesn't adjust. However and the scene with the
breaking out Jeremiah who for some reason has been put in the
jail. There was one lady that made me
laugh out loud but not laugh out loud.
Like I said it would be just sort of her Which is a.
Thanks, great sources to one of the crew don't tell, don't tell
me, you forgot the rope and, and a total Milligan laid.
The person says or I won't yeah, that definitely, that's great
fun. Instant when they, when they
abandon Abdullah on that tiny little island with a goat.
Oh yeah. I think Jeremiah says dick dick.
Just remarks to Jeremiah, whoever gets hungry first, eats
the other. Yeah.
But it's pretty fed be your basis point.
And then really you're sort of stumbling literally actually
stumbling towards the end and it reminded me it's not had to
remain a bit of yellow built. You know, we're very Grim,
countenance from year will be on Wheels when you get to Yellow be
of there's also a bit of a mess. But the first third door that
has quite as a lot of ideas in it themselves are actually quite
funny. You're like bleep you.
Yes, with John Cleese, is by Pew as long as B times the late.
So as a sort of Master swordsman and you don't pay your bills,
Queen and all that sort of, you know, there's someone there are
some funny. And some fun when it goes Peter,
Peter boils in that as well. That's right here, isn't it?
Yeah, but when it gets out towards the Finding the
Treasure, it becomes absolutely interminable.
Are it does. It really does?
Yeah, I find myself at the when I was watching this thinking, I
just want this to finish now because we're just sort of even
Milligan was getting very many lines and to it by this point.
You can tell there's a lot of over going this way or normal
that we order which the wrong or this is the treasure know that
orbit orbit, no, will be able to read the map or bit what it's
just rubbish and then you get the sort of ending which is to
do with a treasure that Malik. The billy-bob he's buried and
it's actually kind of balls on them with us over and then the
crew abandoned them and then it's just Milligan tight
actually and sailors, you know, buddy, dr.
Naik, decadent with each other as it finishes and it's clearly
just this is all we could think of to get this finished.
Well, yeah, but you missed out that that just before they get
tied up or buried dick and Billy fight like hitting each other
with Spades like oh yeah, Vicky Vic and Bob, you know.
But yeah, you're right, I mean this this little flashes of Of
humor. And there's bits that I laughed
at or giggled at or smiled at at least.
Yeah, I did. I did like the bit where but
they're making Abdullah walk. The plank in Jeremiah pleads
with dick. Says,
That's the one. That's one.
Good joke in the phone. What?
Actual good joke. A short of blowing up a doctor.
That's obviously a goose. Hmm.
However so that gets us to the end of the film.
Everybody will be deleted. Here's the thing though.
Star Wars films. It's not as bad.
I think it's bad, but there are far worse films than that.
The Columbia were told in the documentary wouldn't accept
delivery of it. Therefore, nobody would be paid.
Mmm. No, I find it very, very hard to
believe. That.
There's not more to it than that.
The Columbia would just see what not accepting this.
Because they deliver a film. And the idea that a studio would
contractually be able to not accept it because they didn't
like it. I think is very, very unlikely
job because, you know, any Studio could not back any film
on that basis. Why would you even have a
contract? Why would you have finishing
Insurance? You know, it just doesn't make
any sense. So there's something was stolen
or something. We're still not being told about
the the Very edge of the that process and the, the documentary
kind of Scots around, that will just told, they wouldn't accept
it. And then then, then you never
told her, what the Fallout from that is that was made that paid
the join home and get his money. You know, what did it mean for
other did the crew get paid? You know, who did there's all
sorts of questions do and what you know about you know what at
then being shelled and not appearing until Ow. 1985.
Is that nothing sir? Yeah, sure does.
The stole a chunk of the story that hasn't come out yet?
I feel it's just interesting how many films sellers was involved
with it around this period that just got shelved or barely so
second but do not think. That's that think she this is I
think as the Great And - Mark about Peter Sellers, as career.
He has the early period. I don't mean the donor wrong
with said, been fitted up here. You know, they always sort of a
Lady Killers, own Brothers, yeah.
All the sort of those kind of the black-and-white years
Shadows base Gio's in my view are obviously, that does dogs
are strings off and goes I don't it with stratospheric.
And becomes synonymous with the whole British film thing.
And they gets the Hollywood stuff.
You know, there were obviously Pink Panther works out for them
and just makes them as makes them as rich as croesus and all
that kind of stuff. But then you get to that late
period. We are, he just seems to
sabotage. You know, every film that he's
n. Yeah, sure.
Thanks to some extent. And you think to yourself how
did said Peter, this is a sort of a slightly.
I mean, it's an unanswerable question but it has something
about the point of is it because he knew he wasn't going to live
to an old age? He had a congenital heart
problem, he'd had her had heart attacks and he, you know, he was
obviously being again Medicals and things for the films of his
end and I'm sure he was in constant contact with, you know,
private clinics and so forth. He must have known that his time
was fairly limited, you know? Did that feed into has not
feeling like you had to behave because the behavior that he
exactly did it. Demonstrated, it's not someone
who thinks they're going to be working into over 70.
That's because hope because how long are people going to put up
with it? And he bit your baby behaved on
the films that mattered like being I think he gets absolutely
yes. Dear I think y'all should behave
done films where I think he was maybe intimidated as the wrong
one but certainly he was in films with people that wouldn't
put up with you know the noises. I can't imagine Melvin talk of
his having very much patience for anybody.
By the time, true was making to being there.
You know what, shuttle? McLean was no pushover.
And obviously as you see he wanted to be in them, you know,
and it was just, it was a shorter, probably realize there
was shot, Oscar gory but that's also feeds into my point.
Because when you made being there him, I'm sure he must have
realized it wasn't. When you get the whole of the
80s, they have another finger for goes by getting an Oscar.
Mmm. So does that mean they're for
that? You just behave?
And the spoiled brat is way that pig brought him up to behave
like because it didn't really matter for very much longer
because he didn't, it wasn't going to have a career that was
going to last another twenty five years so why bother?
So then you just, you know, you behave you become the spoiled
child again. Yeah.
I tell you what.
One of the one of the great for F's of film history, has In my
view and I actually would have been as better chance.
Had he done it of getting an Oscar?
Is that by all accounts? Vegetable codes.
Couple of wanted them to play. Hyman Roth.
In The Godfather Part 2. Yeah, I only found that out
recently. One of my guests mentioned that
I not heard that before. Yeah.
It's fascinating that. Yeah.
No. I know I think at least tries
Burns. All right his home in Roth is
fine. I mean but I mean he's He's just
fine. I think Silas would have been
absolutely stunning as home in Ross because you would have been
able to challenge Channel. All of that.
You know, contain mollis, you know, the choir exterior, when
you can imagine them listening to, Michael talked with that
lately, you know, is like cuddled, let a little nasty
coddled let work in the Geoffrey.
Rush goertzel perfectly off in the film, and I think it would
just have been extraordinary and if you had done it he'd of got
an Oscar for it. And and I can't, you know,
considering the way that you look is, sort of the way the
film went over. Mmm.
But anyway, that brings me back to that.
Brings me back to my main point, which is why I have thought
about it, a few take things when you you read about, how could
somebody behave like this? And expect their carrier to
last. But then the expect his career
to last did you know, we was always heading for That Sweet in
the Dorchester. That terrible for two of them,
you know what? He's holding his IV drip and the
Gown. Yeah, you can see, you can see
through the golden, you can always see through him.
And the way Roger Lewis describes that by this time, his
heart filled, his entire chest, and was paper friend.
And if you do your head, there you may join just being like a
tank as a porpoise arrays, were just do what you like.
I did the same time you know you have all the stories of all the
flourishes of General genuine genius and the recognizing
genius or you know basically pulling the producers out of
nowhere and turning it into the heck that it became and creating
Mel Brooks has to be a forum you know.
And I'm making the peg time for phones which regardless of what
anybody likes over, critically of stole hysterically funny the
best. Definitely.
Yeah. And what weather watched?
The documentary, The Ghost of Peter Sellers.
Just just one of those things I watched it in.
I sort of streaming thing. And then, I thought watch
something else because it wasn't until sleep, very much that
woman saw the file, which something else.
And I was in the mood there for for another documentary about
making a film. And I watched other officers,
Junior. Hey, I don't know if you've seen
without when you go in a bit, too much.
Is Alejandro jodorowsky. I came to to make an adaptation
of June in the 70s and those are documentary about your, which I
absolutely recommend. Everybody watch is fantastic and
how it was going. It was all made of Pink, Floyd
were going to do the music and h.r.
Giger. I was doing concept art for and
Tres force was doing concept up for and Salvador Dali was going
to be in it or some whales is going to be in it.
Like Jagger was going to be on it.
It was all it was all in place with Michelle's to do the French
producer and they took it to Hollywood and they weren't
financier, you know, that's it. And then it was a loud, you
know, but it demonstrates how the concept art thing.
Is what are we into? Obviously, with Geiger at once
as went to alien and forever? It's great.
But here's the thing that I thought was weirdly think,
serendipitous a bit watching it after the ghost of PSA levels.
The Saving Grace of the legend of of harder of June, is that it
wasn't made. Because if it was me it it would
have been fucking terrible, you know, some of the I mean, I'm
sure it would have been fascinating and it was made into
like 10 hours long and they come up with all sorts of mad ideas,
like, you know, pole with poetry Ladies as an Immaculate
Conception and all this sort of sleazy avant-garde noises.
And there's a lot of very sort of vein, what they thought
people who are in it all very reasonable.
People who say, you know, what would have been awesome.
It would have changed Cinema, or it would just have been attained
or long miasma of art nonsense, but it doesn't matter because it
wasn't made, so everybody can see, it was amazing.
And the story of trying to get it made.
It's brilliant. Yeah, the best thing that could
have happened to ghost in the Noonday Sun.
It's a nobody made up if they had all gone out there.
I'm started on the shepherd trashed, and that's not and
sailors picked off, and you pretended to have that.
And then they shut down production and didn't make it.
They ghost in the Noonday Sun would probably be the legendary
episode of The Lost film of Peter Sellers.
Unfortunately what actually is is an interesting documentary,
but shit. So