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Blackbeard's Ghost is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Robert Stevenson released in USA on 8 february 1968 with Peter Ustinov
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
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Add to a movie listBlackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 live-action fantasy comedy Disney film starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette, directed by Robert Stevenson. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Ben Stahl and was shot at the Walt Disney Studios. The Disney Channel aired this film until the late 1990s.
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Steve Walker (Dean Jones) arrives in a North Carolina seacoast town to take the position of track coach at Godolphin College. The night of his arrival coincides with a charity bazaar at the hotel where he will be boarding — Blackbeard's Inn, named after the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Teach and now run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers, elderly descendants of the pirate's crew. The owners are attempting to pay off their mortgage to keep the inn from being bought by the local crime boss, Silky Seymour (Joby Baker), who wants to build a casino on the land. Steve quickly discovers his track team's shortcomings and runs afoul of the dean of Godolphin College, its football coach, and Seymour. He also makes the acquaintance of attractive Godolphin professor Jo Anne Baker (Suzanne Pleshette), who is anxious to help the elderly ladies save Blackbeard's Inn.Actors
Peter Ustinov
(Captain Blackbeard)
Dean Jones
(Steve Walker)
Suzanne Pleshette
(Jo Anne Baker)
Elsa Lanchester
(Emily Stowecroft)
Richard Deacon
(Dean Wheaton)
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