Treasure Island

Watch: Treasure Island

Unrated

7/19/19501h 36m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ PIRATE'S PLUNDER a young cabin boy, a roguish buccaneer... match wits in a swashbuckling adventure! ~

Overview:

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Director:

Byron Haskin

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$4,419,657.00

Key words:

treasure
island
based on novel or book
parrot
pirate gang
treasure hunt
treasure map
pirate
sailor
wooden leg
18th century
sailing ship
apple barrel

Cast

Bobby Driscoll

~ as ~

Jim Hawkins

Robert Newton

~ as ~

Long John Silver

Basil Sydney

~ as ~

Captain Smollett

Walter Fitzgerald

~ as ~

Squire Trelawney

Denis O'Dea

~ as ~

Dr. Livesy

Finlay Currie

~ as ~

Capt. Billy Bones

Ralph Truman

~ as ~

George Merry

Geoffrey Keen

~ as ~

Israel Hands

Geoffrey Wilkinson

~ as ~

Ben Gunn

John Laurie

~ as ~

Blind Pew

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
8
This is a cracking interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of a hunt for a legendary treasure on a remote desert island. Robert Newton is superb as the double-dealing, one-legged "Long John Silver" who would betray his own mother if needs be, enlisted by the foolish "Squire Trelawney" to raise a crew to get them to Hispaniola where Flint's treasure is reputedly located. There's a solid effort from the enthusiastic young Bobby Driscoll as "Jim Hawkins", and Basil Sydney, John Gregson and Denis O'Shea complete the complement of "loyal" officers as against a crew riddled with cut-throats. It's a great, colourful, seafaring adventure with it's fair share of twists and turns. It's odd to see Geoffrey Keen ("Israel Hands") as a baddie and John Laurie, Finlay Currie and a super Francis de Wolff all help Byron Haskin's adaptation to be the best of all. "Them's the die'll be the lucky ones!"