Treasure Island (1950)
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.
- Byron Haskin
- Mark Evans
- Joan Davis
- George Fowler
- Gordon Heaver
- Pat MacDonnell
- David W. Orton
- Lawrence Edward Watkin
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: 6.5/10 by 202 users
Alternative Title:
Salainen aarresaari - FI
Country:
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
English
Italiano
Runtime: 01 hour 36 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $4,419,657
Plot Keyword: treasure, island, based on novel or book, parrot, pirate gang, treasure hunt, treasure map, pirate, sailor, wooden leg, 18th century, sailing ship
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!"
