A light comedy filmed on location in Rome, Ghosts, Italian Style (1967) was re-titled Ghosts - Italian Style for the American market, an attempt to cash in on a previous Sophia Loren success, Marriage Italian Style (1964), for which the actress received a Best Actress Oscar® nomination. But the film, produced by Sophia's husband producer Carlo Ponti, quickly faded from view and, in all fairness, hadn't fared well in Italy either. It was just the beginning of a long and undistinguished phase for Loren marked by such lackluster films as Sunflower (1970), The Priest's Wife (1970), Lady Liberty (1971) and the box office disaster, Man of La Mancha (1972), based on the smash Broadway musical.
Italian censorship visa # 50430 delivered on 14-12-1967.
There is a closing joke and call-back with Sophia Loren's co-star of Marriage Italian Style (1964) in which we finally see a real ghost---Marcello Mastroianni---in a cameo as a decapitated 17th-Century Scottish ancestor, carrying his own head.
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967) was inspired by the play Questi fantasmi! by Eduardo De Filippo (1946).
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967) reunites Sophia Loren with Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's biggest stars, for the first time since their film Anna (1951) when Sophia was still a bit player.
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