Susan Gordon

While playing on a wrecked ship on the shoreline, a young boy meets a genie who magically transports him back in time to Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun. And Barbara Bel Geddes and debuting teen Tuesday Weld add to the excellent performances in The Five Pennies, the success-tempered-with-tears biopic of jazz great Red Nichols.

Two best friends and their accidental hostage careen across the 1970s American South on a treasure hunt turned crime spree while evading the law.