BLACKBEARD'S GHOST(1968)
Another of Disney's live action films, with the always enjoyable
Peter Ustinov as the main character!! Along with Dean Jones(Love
Bug,), Suzanne Pleshette(Bob Newhart), and the wonderful Elsa
Lanchester, this movie is another hit by Disney! B+
A review from Amazon:
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