Customer Reviews
Good Vintage Disney 
2008-05-23
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.
a great twist into the "life" of a ruthless pirate 
2008-01-27
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.
Classic Disney Comedy - DVD Below Par 
2007-12-29
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 and quite funny with innocent romance -- the kissing booth was fun to watch.
DVD: Very barebones, just the film and the set-up, looks like a VHS transfer, yuk.
Another title: "How a comedy movie should be" 2007-10-02
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 as well! And this
movie delivers!! You just blow your head off of laughing, from the very
beginning 'till the very end! The jokes are some of the best of all
times!! Every single frame of this movie is a turbulence of nonstop
laughing!! I just can't find words to say something bad about this
movie, I mean it.
How can one not give a single good laugh after seeing Blackbeard (Peter
Unistov) put Steve Walker (Dean Jones) into trouble with a police
officer? Or even, in the olympics where Blackbeard helps poor Godolphin
team to win, specially when he messes up with the final competition,
where he confuses every other runner simply using a hot-dog, a flag and
a bottle of rum! THIS FOLKS, IS HOW EVERY COMEDY MOVIE SHOULD BE MADE!!
I mean it! This is first class comedy! I first saw this movie when I
had 8 years. I'm 26 now. And I continue to love this as much as I loved
when I was a boy.
This is, without a doubt a 5 star movie! And even giving this 5 stars is
not enough, because it deserves much more! Perhaps, shouting the magic
words (kree kru vergo gebba kalto kree) out loud can make some other
picture like that appears around. While this isn't happen, get this one
and have fun beyond your imagination!
Lots of fun!!! 2007-08-31
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.
Blackbeards Ghost VHS 2007-07-20
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!
Classic Summertime fun!!! 2007-07-07
Peter Ustinov is at his best in this great film from a more innocent time. The scene where he confronts the cop and "teaches the poppin jay a lesson," oh if that were only real. The help that he gives the track team and the meet is non-stop fun. You will laugh many times while watching this movie and when its over you will feel GREAT!
Blackbeard's Ghost 
2007-06-30
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.
Funny Ghost Story 2007-06-25
This movie has its problems, not the least of which is that this version of the DVD is in full screen and the movie was originally filmed in widescreen. This movie could also do with some restoration. However, those are details and have little to do with the movie itself, which has always been one of my favorites. Peter Ustinov is funny as Edward Teach, and the chemistry between Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette works well.
Steve Walker (Jones) is the new track coach. Jones is unfortunately booked into an inn that was produced from parts of ships used by Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard. Walker finds an old parchment and reads the words on it. The words release Blackbeard's ghost from the limbo he was trapped in, but his ghost is visible only to Jones.
The hilarity of this movie plays on the more humorous parts of movies about invisible people. Blackbeard can move objects but no one can harm him. Blackbeard decides to try and do a good dead in order to move on to the next life, and the victim of his attempts at good deeds is Steve Walker. Blackbeard's mayhem follows Steve wherever he goes, much to the amusement of the audience. Virtually every scene that Peter Ustinov appears in is funny. Indeed, Ustinov probably could have made the movie without his co-stars, but having Dean Jones as a victim of Blackbeard's good deeds likely made the script easier to write.
Blackbeard is a caricature of a carousing pirate, which means that he drinks and speaks of moderately uncouth things. I wondered whether parents should exclude small children from watching this film. I think that the cartoonish nature of Blackbeard and the fun he has are more charming than threatening and parents can always explain that ghostly pirates can do the things Blackbeard does, but not real people. Thus, I think even small children will find some humor in Blackbeard.
This movie is less than perfect, but I keep watching it. Jones has appeared in many Disney movies, but this one is one of his better appearances. Jones and Pleshette have also appeared together in several Disney films, and the chemistry between the two was at its best in this film. I am unable to say enough positive things about Peter Ustinov. Ustinov is a brilliant and natural actor who hams it up in a way that makes Blackbeard's ghost his own. Fans of pirate movies, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette, Disney Movies, Dean Jones, and Elsa Lanchester should have this movie in their collection.
Enjoy!
GREAT MOVIE FOR ANYBODY!!! 2007-05-07
This is a movie I remember loving as a kid. So many movies though, when you look at them again when you're older, lose some or all of their charm. This is not the case with Blackbeard's Ghost. I still laughed myself silly watching this Disney gem! The movie has got it all; swashbuckling pirates, ancient curses, goofy antics and schemes, awkward guy trying to get the self assured girl, and lots of old time Disney movie comfort factor-you know, the kind of movie you just feel really good after watching. I recommend this movie for anybody and I'm sure you'll enjoy it too.
