Treasure Island 1950

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 96 min

genre: adventure

theme: action

director: Byron Haskin

Score: 5 / 10

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.

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author	Lawrence Edward Watkin
contentLocation	England
director	Byron Haskin
editor	Alan Jaggs
events	sea piracy
genre	adventure live-action
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musicBy	Clifton Parker
producer	Perce Pearce Walt Disney
productionCompany	Walt Disney Pictures
publisher	RKO Pictures
theme	action children's adventure dance