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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936178562
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 04, 2002
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 1945
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1968
Editorial Review:
Description:
Award-winning actor Peter Ustinov stars in this hilarious fantasy as the ghost of the legendary pirate Blackbeard. The once blackhearted scoundrel materializes in a small New England town, cursed to wander in limbo until he performs a good deed. He gets his chance when he decides to help a local college track team--that hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning! Blackbeard finds himself full of team spirit, and dispensing his own brand of invisible coaching--in this warmhearted comedy that will have you laughing from his first fade-in to his final fade-out!
Amazon.com:
In the moody prologue, amid a raging storm that evokes Hollywood golden-age high-seas swashbucklers, a foreboding scroll recounts the legend of one of the bloodiest pirates in the history of the Caribbean. Leave it to Disney to turn him into a fun-loving old prankster with a whimsical side. Peter Ustinov mugs shamelessly as the bombastic but harmless apparition who renounces his wicked ways to become the mischievous school spirit of the local college, much to the annoyance of straight-arrow track coach Dean Jones. Made in the heyday of Disney’s live-action family comedies, Blackbeard's Ghost is all haphazard but high-energy slapstick and squeaky-clean romance (courtesy of contemporary schoolmarm Suzanne Pleshette) performed with more gumption than grace, but there’s a nostalgic innocence to the whole overplayed affair. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good Vintage Disney
I enjoyed this movie, as it is Disney in its golden era (60's and 70's). Ustinov as Blackbeard was a bit over-the-top in his acting, but Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette were wonderful, as always. I would recommend this film for the kids of today; they just don't make 'em like this anymore.
Rating:  - a great twist into the "life" of a ruthless pirate
This has been one of my favorite movies since I was a small child. My husband is a huge pirate finatic and Edward Teach "Blackbeard" is one of his favorites. When I first showed him this movie he loved this Disney twist on one of the most greusom pirates ever to sail the Spanish maine. Without stripping any of his authorotative persona Disney found a kid friendly (young or old) way to portray one of my favorite "villans" of all time.
Rating:  - Classic Disney Comedy - DVD Below Par
Peter Ustinov shows such range where he's a comedic, slapstick loveable pirate, trapped by a curse to roam the shores of New England and haunt Dean Jones until Blackbeard can make a good man of himself. The losing track team makes some inroads, thanks to the pirate cheating. The bad guys want the bank mortgage to run out and take over an old hotel for their gambling center. Dean Jones was well known in Disney circles in the sixties, with the Love Bug and others. This film is on a similar vein ... Read More
Rating: - Another title: "How a comedy movie should be"
This is just a masterpiece of comedy movies! In the same words of Peter
Unistov as Blackbeard, it seems that people don't know how to have fun
anymore nowadays. I think that's the reason why I never saw many
excellent comedies like that anymore. I love to see a great piece in the
big screen, one of those who give us some reflection of life, some
outstanding lines, epic portrayals of great men of our history and
everything. But I also LOVE to strike a great laugh ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of fun!!!
This is one of my all time favorites by Disney. If you like the type of fun found in the original "Absent Minded Professor", you'll love this one.
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