The Ghost Goes Gear

1966 British film by Hugh Gladwish

  • Roger Dunton
  • Lionel Hoare
Produced by
  • Lionel Hoare
  • Harry Field
Starring
  • Spencer Davis Group
  • Sheila White
  • Nicholas Parsons
Cinematography
  • Peter Hendry
  • George Stevens
Edited byRonald GlenisterMusic byJohn Shakespeare
Production
company
Distributed byWarner-Pathé Distributors
Release date
  • September 1966 (1966-09)
Running time
79 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

The Ghost Goes Gear is a 1966 British musical comedy film directed by Hugh Gladwish and starring the Spencer Davis Group, Sheila White and Nicholas Parsons.[1][2]

Plot

A music group go to stay at the childhood home of their manager, a haunted manor house in the English countryside.

Cast

  • Spencer Davis Group as themselves
  • Nicholas Parsons as Algernon Rowthorpe Plumley
  • Sheila White as Polly
  • Lorne Gibson as Ghost / himself
  • Arthur Howard as Vicar
  • Jack Haig as Old Edwards
  • Joan Ingram as Lady Rowthorpe
  • Tony Sympson as Lord Plumley
  • Emmett Hennessy as Butch
  • Robert Langley as little boy
  • Bernard Stone as Ccockney dad
  • Janet Davies as cockney wife
  • Huw Thomas as news presenter
  • St. Louis Union as themselves
  • The Three Bells as themselves
  • Dave Berry as himself
  • Acker Bilk as himself

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Pared down for release to little more than half its original length, this musical farrago is an embarrassingly artless affair, dolled up with all kinds of camera trickery but uncomfortably reminiscent of the "quota quickie"."[3]

References

  1. ^ "The Ghost Goes Gear". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  2. ^ "The Ghost Goes Gear (1967)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  3. ^ "The Ghost Goes Gear". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 34 (396): 157. 1 January 1967. ProQuest 1305834685 – via ProQuest.

External links

  • The Ghost Goes Gear at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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