Treasure Island (1950)
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Cast
as Long John Silver
as Jim Hawkins
as Captain Smollett
as Squire Trelawney
as Dr. Livesey
as George Merry
as Capt. Bones
as Pew
as Black Dog
as Ben Gunn
as Arrow
as Gray
as Hunter
as Joyce
as Redruth
as Williams
as Israel Hand
as Tom Morgan
as Bolen
as Cady
as Jack Bart
as Haggott
as Scully
as Job Anderson
as Norton
as Wolfe
as Pike
as Vane
as Durgin
as Roach
as Spotts
as Bray
as Upson
as Tardy
Critic Reviews for Treasure Island
All Critics (7) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (0) | DVD (2)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of pirates offers thrills for youngsters and nostalgic chuckles for their elders.
Mr. Walt Disney's first British picture, Treasure Island, can be voted a tremendous success.
Avast! Disney's live-action, seagoing landmark.
Newton's Long John Silver is the ultimate buccaneer, a one-legged, squinty-eyed blackguard so piratical he even concludes a prayer with a hammy 'Ahhhhhrrrmen...'
While the movie seems shorter every time I watch it (ninety-six minutes) and leaves out a lot of Stevenson's detail, its cheerful sense of excitement carries the day.
Audience Reviews for Treasure Island
This is one of my favourite old Disney movies, it's fun and exciting and such a great adventure movie. It's not just a good kids movie, adults will find this movie fun and exciting too.
Super Reviewer
Now this is a real classic, true acting being performed here, Newton is made for this role as he showed in numerous other pirate flicks and a sequel to this. Its extremely good and looks realistic for its time with glorious technicolour and some lovely matt painting work (if alittle fantasised). The whole film has that golden era of cinema look, crisp colours, dashing gents with well spoken accents and a great rugged historical shine that most modern modern flicks miss. I was brought up on classics like this, kids nowadays will laugh probably, shame, they know not of the real movies hehe
Super Reviewer
This adaptation of Stevenson's classic adventure novel was Disney's first 100% live-action film. As with a lot of similar Disney fare, it's rather too 'Technicolorful' for my taste, in general glossing over the blacker elements of the story, though the occasional tinge of darkness does prevail, for example Israel Hands' (creepily played by Geoffrey Keen) pursuit of Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) up the ship's rigging. The film badly fluffs Stevenson's masterly opening, but it doesn't do too bad a job of representing the flip-flopping morality of Long John Silver's relationship with Hawkins. Robert Newton's performance as Silver is appropriately and enjoyably hammy, but his supporting players are either unnecessarily over the top themselves (Walter Fitzgerald's Squire Trelawney and Geoffrey Wilkinson's Ben Gunn) or blandly unappealing (Driscoll, and Dennis O'Dea's Dr. Livesy). Not bad.
Super Reviewer
Treasure Island Quotes
| Long John Silver: | Long John Silver be a friend of Mister Arrow, and he looks after him. |