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Treasure Island

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Treasure Island
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G,1hr 36min
Genre:
Action
Release:
1950
Director:
Byron Haskin
Distributor:
Walt Disney Video
Starring:
Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney  ...more
Synopsis: The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver (Robert Newton) for a treasure. Disney changes the ending of the book, yet the film is so entertaining--particularly Newton's scene-stealing performance--that the difference is forgivable. In the '70s, ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
The most popular and often-filmed of all pirate adventure stories is this Robert Louis Stevenson classic. It was filmed by MGM in 1934 and remade several times, but no version was more memorable than the 1950 Walt Disney effort. As Disney pictures go, Treasure Island was rather daring, with so much spectacle and violence that some of the battle sequences had to be edited out in some versions. At the ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Bobby Driscoll
Jim Hawkins
Robert Newton
Long John Silver
Basil Sydney
Capt. Smollett
Walter Fitzgerald
Squire Trelawney
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