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Treasure Island
Treasure Island is a 1950 adventure film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name. Directed by Byron Haskin, it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. Treasure Island was Disney's first completely live-action film and the first screen version of Treasure Island made in color. It was filmed in the United Kingdom on location and at Denham Film Studios, Buckinghamshire.
Plot
In the West Coast of England in 1765, a young boy called Jim Hawkins lives with his mother in a tiny country inn which they run. Captain William Bones, a sickly lodger, gives Jim a treasure map after being visited by two pirates, the second of whom gives the captain a note marked with the black spot, and sends him for help with a mysterious promise to share. Jim returns with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, only to find Bones dead at the inn, and Jim shows Trelawney the map. Trelawney recognizes the map as belonging to the buccaneer Captain Flint and bankrolls a voyage to discover the pirate's lost treasure. Trelawney hires Captain Smollett and his ship, the Hispaniola, bringing along Dr Livesey as the ship's doctor and Jim as the cabin boy.
Cast
- Andrew Blackett
- Basil Sydney
- Bob Head
- Bobby Driscoll
- Chris Adcock
- David Davies
- Denis O'Dea
- Diarmuid Kelly
- Eddie Moran
- Finlay Currie
- Francis de Wolff
- Fred Clark
- Geoffrey Keen
- Geoffrey Wilkinson
- Gordon Mulholland
- Harold Jamieson
- Harry Locke
- Howard Douglas
- Jack Arrow
- Jim O'Brady
- John Gregson
- John Laurie
- Ken Buckle
- Leo Phillips
- Paddy Brannigan
- Patrick Troughton
- Ralph Truman
- Reginald Drummond
- Robert Newton
- Sam Kydd
- Stephen Jack
- Tom Lucas
- Walter Fitzgerald
- William Devlin
More details
| author | Lawrence Edward Watkin |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | England |
| director | Byron Haskin |
| editor | Alan Jaggs |
| events | sea piracy |
| genre | adventure live-action |
| keywords | belong ben gunn billy bones black spot bury cabin boy captain alexander smollett captain smollett captain william bones cove discover dr. livesey fly greet guinea infect israel hands jim hawkins jolly roger kill load long john silver lost treasure maroon morning squire trelawney treasure hunt treasure island treasure map wake up west young boy |
| musicBy | Clifton Parker |
| producer | Perce Pearce Walt Disney |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Pictures |
| publisher | RKO Pictures |
| theme | action children's children's adventure |