Treasure Island

1950
Approved
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

9.9K

YOUR RATING

The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.

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The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.

Director
- Byron Haskin
Writers
- Lawrence Edward Watkin
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

9.9K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Byron Haskin
Writers
- Lawrence Edward Watkin
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total

Trivia
Disney's first all-live-action movie. Walt Disney started the project when postwar restrictions stopped him from transferring profits from his cartoons out of the United Kingdom. Rather than set up a new animation studio, he used the profits and existing facilities to produce a conventional film. The movie was filmed in England, not in the West Indies, using Disney's frozen U.K. profits.

Goofs
Throughout the film the frizzens were often open and the flashpans exposed on the supposed flintlock pistols and muskets, but the guns fired anyway. These were obviously stage guns, but as a factual point the frizzen must be closed on the pan and there must be a poof of smoke before a flintlock gun will fire.

Quotes
Long John Silver: Arrrh!

Alternate versions
The 1975 re-release had some violent scenes removed in order to qualify for a G rating. Early VHS releases use this version. These scenes were restored in the 1992 video release, and was re-rated PG (yet early copies of the 1992 VHS still sported a G rating on the packaging).

Connections
Edited into The Magical World of Disney: Treasure Island: Part 1 (1955)

Soundtracks
Johnny's Gone Down to Hilo
(uncredited)
Traditional
Arranged by Clifton Parker

User reviews76

Featured review

7/10

Newton is probably the best thing about this version.

Because practically everyone knows the story of "Treasure Island", I don't bother summarizing it here...especially since this is a rather direct telling of the classic story with no weirdness like you'd find in "Treasure Planet".

So is this Disney-fied version any good? Yes. While I still prefer the MGM version of the 1930s, this one is quite nice with its full color and the fun (and far from subtle) performance by Robert Newton as Long John Silver. Nothing particularly out of the oridinary....just a solid incarnation of the old Robert Louis Stevenson novel and a decent movie you can watch with your family.