Long John Silver
Long John Silver, also known as Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island, is a 1954 American-Australian adventure film about the eponymous pirate Long John Silver, with Robert Newton repeating his starring role from Walt Disney's 1950 feature Treasure Island. Newton's billing in the opening credits states, "Robert Newton as Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal", followed by the title Long John Silver, presenting Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal Long John Silver as another of the film's alternate titles.
Plot
The movie is set some time after the events of Treasure Island. Long John Silver and crew are broke and bumming around Portobello (a fictional port in the British West Indies). Long John has a map to a second treasure cache on Treasure Island; but needs a special medallion to decode it. The pirate Mendoza has kidnapped Governor Strong's daughter Elizabeth and is holding her ransom. Also captured is Jim Hawkins, who has been press ganged into serving as cabin boy. Hawkins has secretly helped Dod Perch escape, and sent them to track down Long John Silver for help. Perch manages to find Long John, but is beaten to the punch and killed by two of Mendoza's men. Perch is able to mention Mendoza, Strong and Hawkins before perishing. Long John visits Governor Strong and his wife and proposes to deliver the ransom before they pursue Mendoza.
More details
| author | Martin Rackin |
|---|---|
| director | Byron Haskin |
| editor | Manuel delCampo |
| events | sea piracy |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | bristol british west indies bury cabin boy capture cut double cross engage kidnap kill long john silver maroon press gang secret hideout serve shotgun wedding slave ship the king track down trap treasure island wed west indies |
| musicBy | David Buttolph |
| producer | Joseph Kaufman |
| productionCompany | Treasure Island Pictures |
| publisher | Distributors Corporation of America |
| recordedAt | Australia |