The Ghost Goes Gear

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. It was written by Roger Dunton and Lionel Hoare.

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

Cast

 * The 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 cockney 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

Release
It was released in the UK as support to One Million Years B.C.

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"."