On this day back in 1968, Disney's live-action fantasy-comedy Blackbeard's Ghost,
starring Peter Ustinov (as the ghost of Blackbeard the pirate), Dean
Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, and Elsa Lanchester, is released.
Based
upon the novel of the same name written by Ben Stahl, the film tells
the story of the famous pirate's ghost who returns to modern times.
Jones plays Steve Walker, a college track coach, who teams up with the
spirit of Captain Blackbeard to stop some local criminals from taking
over the historic Blackbeard's Inn, run by Emily Stowecroft (Elsa
Lanchester). The pirate has been cursed by his last wife (a notorious
witch) so that he will never die unless he can "break" the curse by
doing a good deed. Suzanne Pleshette plays Jo Anne Baker the pretty
psych professor who likes Steve but is worried by his inexplicable
behavior. Blackbeard's Ghost is directed by Robert Stevenson with a
screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi.
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