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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 (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys [1]) is an adventure and historical novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It was published in 1883, and tells a story of "buccaneers and buried gold" set in the 1700s.
Drive-in advertisement from 1954.. In November 1952, George Pal announced he would adapt the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" into a feature film, with Philip Yordan to write the screenplay.
Siblings Julian, Dick and Anne are spending the Easter school holidays with their cousin George at her parents’ house, Kirrin Cottage. After a tree falls on the house, the four children are sent to Smuggler's Top, the home of Mr Lenoir, a fellow-scientist of George's father,
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.
They row ashore and move into an abandoned, fortified stockade. The pirates are defeated, the treasure is divided amongst Trelawney and his loyal men, and they return to England, leaving the surviving pirates marooned on the island. The squire is a well-travelled man and the best shot amongst the crew.
A prequel novel to Treasure Island, titled Porto Bello Gold, was published in 1924 by Arthur D. Howden Smith. [full citation needed]British historian Dennis Judd presents Silver as the main character in his 1977 prequel, The Adventures of Long John Silver, [10] and in the 1979 sequel, Return to Treasure Island.
This was the second film Disney made in the United Kingdom, the first being Treasure Island (1950). [9] These and several other Disney films were made using British funds frozen during World War II. Originally Bobby Driscoll was going to be featured in the film as a boy in Robin's camp, but he was unable to appear in the film because he had ...