The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Blackbeard's Ghost has generally received positive reviews.
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By Steve Crum (868) for Video-Reviewmaster.com (514) on 19 Apr 2007
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Blackbeard's Ghost was released in 1968 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 110 reviews, giving Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 78%.
With a score of 69%, Blackbeard's Ghost is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1968, which stands at 61%.
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