Blackbeard’s Ghost
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
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The film-makers will walk the plank in shark infested waters for this one.
Blackbeards ghost does not wander around a random college campus making smart comments, pulling lame pranks, and acting like a low-life burn-out loser, I do. Blackbeard is obviously drunk on his ghost-ship in the caribbean. The film-makers are obviously the heirs to filthy british royalty carrying out a plot to give pirates everywhere a bad name.
Rating: 1 / 5
With most that have written reviews on Blackbeards Ghost. I would give it a negative -5 if it were possible. Its that BAD!
Rating: 1 / 5
This movie joins the ranks of those like Casper and Hocus Pocus; the first one to use a ghost and comedy. One of my favorite scenes in this film was when Coach Martin’s host tells him the legend of his ghost. She laughs maniacally, then says “Well, good night, Mr. Martin. Sleep well.” The look on Dean Jones’ face is classic! I heartily recommend this film!
Rating: 5 / 5
Is the DVD no good then? that’s a real shame because I saw it on video which i rented from my local library but I guess it broke as its not there anymore :’( (very sad) But we don’t have widescreen anyway so its alright (hopefully) and i’m used to poor quality as the video i used to watch (before it broke) was really poor quality cos it had been used so much!
Rating: 5 / 5
Though I think this is a fun movie, I was shocked at the terrible quality of both the audio and video. Disney should be ashamed to have released anything this bad.
A similar Disney movie with Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette, “The Ugly Dachshund”, was released on a DVD with excellent quality.
It’s almost as if some Disney executive wanted to save production costs by issuing a few cheap editions, hoping we would by them after being baited by the nice ones. I fell for it, and I regret it.
I won’t purchase any more Disney DVD’s in full-screen. I’ll wait for widescreen, remastered.
Rating: 1 / 5