Blackbeard's Ghost
Track coach Steve Walker accidentally invokes the spirit of notorious pirate Captain Blackbeard who was believed dead. He must now lay the pirate to rest and save a local hotel from mobster Silky Seymour, who wants to build a casino.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Released
- 1968
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1968
Storyline
Track coach Steve Walker accidentally invokes the spirit of notorious pirate Captain Blackbeard who was believed dead. He must now lay the pirate to rest and save a local hotel from mobster Silky Seymour, who wants to build a casino.
Top credits
Peter Ustinov — Captain Blackbeard
Dean Jones — Steve Walker
Suzanne Pleshette — Jo Anne Baker
Elsa Lanchester — Emily Stowecroft
Did you know
• Released in 1968, the 250th anniversary of the death of the real-life Blackbeard the Pirate, Edward Teach.
• Although it is considered a minor entry in the Disney catalog, its total gross from the initial release was reportedly over $20,000,000, a very impressive take for the late 1960s.
• Peter Ustinov played the character of Blackbeard as a rollicking and somewhat "naughty" person, much different than the way the personage was characterized in the movie's 1965 source novel of the same name by Ben Stahl. Stahl also published a sequel titled The Secret of Red Skull.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $10,900,000
User reviews
His breath would stun a horse!
From the Newton School
A good Disney movie.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.75 : 1
- Color
- Color
