Lobby card for Blackbeard's Ghost (dir. Robert Stevenson, 1968).
I remember being all broken up about missing this when it first came out. (I did have the comic book, and I remember reading Ben Stahl's original novel and being confused because its plot was so different from the movie's.) Well, I finally saw it. Biggest surprise: how talky and sloooow it is. It's probably about as close to Beckett as a Disney kid's film about a lameass track team helped to victory by the ghost of a centuries-old dead pirate could possibly be. Peter Ustinov is wonderful, despite (or maybe because of) looking completely unengaged. When he sings "a-diddly-diddly-yo-ho-arrrr" or whatever in that chubby, lazy voice, in imitation of the bad faux-eighteenth-century harpischord soundtrack, one must chuckle.
5 comments:
i was in love with suzanne pleshette when i was 8.
I'm still in love with suzanne pleshette! (sorry ksm)
No problem, Anne--me too.
wow.
i thought i was the only one.
i especially loved support your local gunfighter. i always imagined myself as james garner. sigh.
o... that was me not maggie. sorry. she loves my computer.
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