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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Steve Walker:
You took that money, didn't you?

Blackbeard:
(Thinking a moment.) Money...money... OH, the odd flimsy I removed from the pocketbook of your book-ish wench.

Blackbeard:
Beware all wenches.

Mrs. Stocroft:
As the flames crept higher and higher, she screeched her dying words: EDWARD TEACH, sometimes known as Captain Blackbeard, when you come to die, may your body and soul be racked between this world and the next, always to be alone! May the curse hold fast and true, may you be held forevermore in limbo, until such time as there be found in you, most wicked of all villains, some spark of human goodness. h well, good night Mr. Walker, sleep well. The dining room will be open at 7:30 AM. Please be prompt.

Captain Blackbeard:
What manner of craft be this we're cruisin' in?

Steve Walker:
It's an automobile.

Captain Blackbeard:
Eh?

Steve Walker:
An automobile!

Captain Blackbeard:
Oh, is it? Yes. An "automotonus".

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