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Blackbeard’s Ghost

Poster for the movie "Blackbeard's Ghost"
Poster for the movie "Blackbeard's Ghost"

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

G 106 min - Fantasy, Comedy, Family - 8 February 1968
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Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker (Jones) gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

Director:  Robert Stevenson
Writers:  Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
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Blazing Saddles

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Blazing Saddles (1974)

R 93 min - Western, Comedy - 7 February 1974
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A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lemar sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Director:  Mel Brooks
Writers:  Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger
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