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Strap on your pantaloons and prepare to travel with Jim Hawkins and Blind Pew to one of the most famous fictional islands in history. Walt Disney's 1950 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's swashbuckling masterpiece has held up extremely well, with action and characterizations that feel freshly minted (although it's unlikely that the Mouse of today would sanction the high level of booze flowing throughout the picture). Great fun, with nary a wasted frame and, in the character of Robert Newton's much-imitated Long John, one of cinema's most boisterously crowd-pleasing villains ever. (Proving that you can't keep a good--er, bad man down, Newton would return with director Byron Haskins for the enjoyable sequel, Long John Silver.) Watching this classic is like having a flashback to some perfect Technicolor childhood. --Andrew Wright
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Swab the deck, me matey!,
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This review is from: Treasure Island (VHS Tape)
The Disney studios first official full length, live-action feature, TREASURE ISLAND is good fun. Although it lacks the slick story-telling flair of recent family films, the story, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, is precise and fluid. Robert Newton chews up the scenery as Long John Silver, paving the way for many lovable villains. Bobby Driscoll (Song of the South) plays the brave little Jim Hawkins (or "Jim Harkins" if you speak pirate) who gets involved in a treasure seeking adventure of good vs. evil. In the end, like the viewers of the video, the line between the two is not so well defined. That is a clever twist, especially for a Disney family film. The VHS format already shows some deterioration after a few viewings so I look forward to a DVD release but in the meantime. Yo ho yo ho, A Pirate's Life for Me!
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One of Disney's Best,
By F. Adcock (Silsbee, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Treasure Island (DVD)
There have been several movie versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, going all the way back to the silent era, but I feel Disney's film is the best. Every version has a decent "Long John Silver" - among them Wallace Beery, Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, and even Mr. Magoo. But the entire mood of this film rests on Robert Newton's inspired "Long John". No other portrayal of a pirate has influenced more actors than Newton's, and his characterization has become the stereotype of every pirate performance ever since. Even a bit of "Long John" filters into Newton's portrayal of "Mr. Fix" in Michael Todd's "Around the World in 80 Days".One important note: The cinematographer on this film was Freddie Young, who would later win Oscars for his camera work in "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", and "Ryan's Daughter". Though this is a Disney film, there are some moments which may be a little too violent for younger children, hence the "PG" rating. Far better for Disney to give us the complete movie as originally filmed than to whack the print with a cutlass. A must for any collection of seafaring flicks.
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Yo-ho-ho!,
This review is from: Treasure Island (VHS Tape)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale comes magically to life in this excellent production. Robert Newton gives the performance of his life as Long John Silver, the scoundrelly pirate captain who heads up the most likeable group of rascals and rogues that ever belted out a chorus of "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum." Bobby Driscoll, who tragically never was able to make the jump from child to adult star, is excellent as Jim Hawkins and the supporting cast is very good indeed. But this is Newton's movie. Hamming it up delightfully from one scene to the next, he walks off with the film. The movie strays from the book in a few places, most notably in the end; but when we see Silver sailing off into the sunset, cackling wickedly after appropriating all the loot, we feel somehow that maybe this is how Stevenson should have ended the book. Disney's "Treasure Island" is a treasure in itself.
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