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Blackbeard's Ghost
Directed by	Robert Stevenson
Produced by	Bill Walsh
Written by	Ben Stahl (book) Don DaGradi Bill Walsh
Starring	Peter Ustinov Dean Jones Suzanne Pleshette
Music by	Robert F. Brunner
Cinematography	Edward Colman
Edited by	Robert Stafford
Production company
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$21,540,050^[1]

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Blackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 American fantasycomedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette and directed by Robert Stevenson. It is based upon the 1965 novel of the same name by Ben Stahl and was shot at the Walt Disney Studios.

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Blackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 American fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette and directed by Robert Stevenson.It is based upon the 1965 novel of the same name by Ben Stahl and was shot at the Walt Disney Studios.

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Plot[edit]

Steve Walker (Dean Jones) arrives in a Maryland seacoast town, called Godolphin, to take the position of track coach at Godolphin College. The night of his arrival coincides with a charity bazaar at the hotel where he will be boarding — Blackbeard's Inn, named after the notorious English pirateCaptain Edward Teach and now run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers, elderly descendants of the pirate's crew. The inn had been built by timbers of ships that had run aground in the bay. The owners are attempting to pay off their mortgage to keep the inn from being bought by the local crime boss, Silky Seymour (Joby Baker), who wants to build a casino on the land. Steve quickly discovers his track team's shortcomings and runs afoul of the dean of Godolphin College, its football coach, and Seymour. He also makes the acquaintance of attractive Godolphin professor Jo Anne Baker (Suzanne Pleshette), who is anxious to help the elderly ladies save Blackbeard's Inn.

After a bidding war with the football coach at the charity auction, Steve wins an antiquebed warmer once owned by Blackbeard's 10th wife, Aldetha Teach, who had a reputation of being a witch. Inside the hollow wooden handle of this bed warmer is hidden a book of magic spells that had once been the property of Aldetha. Steve recites, on a lark, a spell 'to bring to your eyes and ears one who is bound in Limbo', unintentionally conjuring up the ghost of Blackbeard (Peter Ustinov), who appears as a socially-inappropriate drunkard, cursed by his wife to an existence in limbo unless he can perform a good deed.

Steve and Blackbeard are bound to one another by the power of the spell, and only the very reluctant Steve can see or hear the ghost. As a result, Steve must deal with the antics of the wayward pirate while attempting to revive Godolphin's track team and form a relationship with Jo Anne. Steve is falsely arrested for drunk driving when Blackbeard attempts to drive Steve's automobile, steering it like a pirate ship. Because the arresting officer can't see Blackbeard (and because Blackbeard riding the cop's motorcycle crashed it into a tree), Steve spends a night in jail. While in jail, Steve reminds Blackbeard that if he does a good deed, his curse will be broken. Steve asks Blackbeard for his treasure to help the Daughters of the Buccaneers save the inn, but Blackbeard admits that he spent all of the money. Steve decides not to trust Blackbeard.

Steve is released from jail the next morning due to lack of evidence but is put on probation with the college, forced to win the big track meet or be fired from his position. The problem is that Steve's team is sorrowfully weak and ordinarily do not stand a chance at winning. Blackbeard is firmly told by Steve, more than once, not to interfere with the boys on his team or the opposing team either. But Blackbeard creates further complications by stealing one of the Inn's mortgage payments and betting it on Steve's track team. Blackbeard's intention is to use his ghostly powers to help Godolphin win the track meet, and then use the winnings to pay the mortgage in full. Steve is at first outraged by the pirate's interference, but he decides the greater good is to win the money for the sake of the Inn. He also accepts the pirate's help in shaking down Silky Seymour and his thugs after Seymour refuses to pay out the winnings from the bet.

With the mortgage paid, Blackbeard has performed his good deed and is released from the curse. After Steve asks the ladies and Jo Anne to recite the spell, thereby rendering Blackbeard visible to them, Blackbeard bids them all a cordial goodbye and departs to join his former crew, leaving Steve and Jo Anne to pursue their future together.

Differences from the Ben Stahl novel[edit]

In the original novel, instead of a track coach, two teenage boys find the book that brings the ghost of Blackbeard back to Godolphin. In addition, Peter Ustinov portrays the pirate Blackbeard as a charming individual in contrast with Stahl's version of the character.

Cast[edit]

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard
Dean Jones as Steve Walker
Suzanne Pleshette as Jo Anne Baker
Elsa Lanchester as Emily Stowecroft
Joby Baker as Silky Seymour
Elliott Reid as TV commentator
Richard Deacon as Principal Roland Wheaton
Norman Grabowski as Virgil
Kelly Thordsen as Motorcycle Cop
Michael Conrad as Pinetop Purvis
Herbie Faye as Croupier
George Murdock as Head official
Hank Jones as Gudger Larkin
Ned Glass as Teller
Gil Lamb as Waiter
Alan Carney as Bartender
Ted Markland as Charles
Lou Nova as Leon
Charlie Brill as Edward
Herb Vigran as Danny Oly
William Fawcett as Mr. Ainsworth, Bank Official
Betty Bronson as Old Lady
Elsie Baker as Old Lady
Kathryn Minner as Old Lady
Sara Taft as Old Lady

Reception[edit]

Blackbeard's Ghost received positive reviews from critics and audiences, earning a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 80% based on 10 reviews.^[2]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and called it 'Disney's best since 'The Absent-Minded Professor' and a splendid vehicle for the many talents of Peter Ustinov.'^[3]Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote, 'The Walt Disney people have delivered a delightful seasonal goody for the young and young-hearted, called 'Blackbeard's Ghost.' After a couple of limp herrings, the master's live-action unit is back on sure footing with the neat, perky and flavorsome little comedy-fantasy that arrived yesterday at neighborhood theaters.'^[4]Variety declared, 'The inspired direction makes it all come alive via firstrate special effects and sight gags, and through a fanciful script that, in a most adroit way, is neither too literate nor too sketchy. Ustinov plays his part to the hilt: mugging and cutting up, as the wandering spirit who must do a good deed to achieve repose.'^[5]Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the film as 'a warm and wacky diversion which could not really have been assembled much better.'^[6]The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, 'Peter Ustinov's exuberant professionalism just about rescues what would otherwise have been a disaster. The basic idea contains a pleasant germ of fantasy, but this is dissipated by a ponderous and self-indulgent script which seems determined to make a mountain out of a molehill. Robert Stevenson's direction is equally pedestrian, and the rather silly fantasy of the crazy sports sequence is a feeble echo of a similar scene in the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers'.'^[7]

The film earned $5 million in theatrical rentals in North America.^[8]

Comic book adaption[edit]

Gold Key: Blackbeard's Ghost (June 1968)^[9]^[10]

References[edit]

^'Blackbeard's Ghost, Box Office Information'. The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
^'Blackbeard's Ghost'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
^Ebert, Roger (April 17, 1968). 'Blackbeard's Ghost'. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
^Thompson, Howard (April 11, 1968). 'Disney's 'Blackbeard'. The New York Times. 51.
^'Blackbeard's Ghost'. Variety. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
^Champlin, Charles (February 9, 1968). 'Blackbeard' in Run at Pantages'. Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 11.
^'Blackbeard's Ghost'. The Monthly Film Bulletin. 35 (411): 57. April 1968.
^'All-time Film Rental Champs', Variety, 7 January 1976 p 48
^'Gold Key: Blackbeard's Ghost'. Grand Comics Database.
^Gold Key: Blackbeard's Ghost at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links[edit]

Blackbeard's Ghost at UltimateDisney.com
Blackbeard's Ghost on IMDb
Blackbeard's Ghost at the TCM Movie Database
Blackbeard's Ghost at AllMovie