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Treasure Island

Treasure Island

6.6

1950

96 min

Adventure

Family

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.

Treasure Island

6.6

1950

96 min

Adventure

Family

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.

Cast

Bobby Driscoll

Jim Hawkins

Robert Newton

Long John Silver

Basil Sydney

Captain Smollett

Walter Fitzgerald

Squire Trelawney

Denis O'Dea

Dr. Livesy

Finlay Currie

Capt. Billy Bones

Ralph Truman

George Merry

Geoffrey Keen

Israel Hands

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Ben Gunn

John Laurie

Blind Pew

Francis de Wolff

Black Dog

David Davies

Mr. Arrow

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

3 years ago

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!"