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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 .
The character of Squire Trelawney has been played in film adaptations by Sydney Deane (1920), Nigel Bruce (1934), Mikhail Klimov (1938), Walter Fitzgerald (1950), Algimantas Masiulis (1971), Walter Slezak (1972), Thorley Walters (1977), Vladislav Strzhelchik (1982), Borys Voznyuk (1988, voice), Richard Johnson (1990), Fozzie Bear in Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Christopher Benjamin (1999 ...
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.
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.
Captain Alexander Smollett is the fictional captain of the schooner Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.He plays an important part in disciplining the main characters on the ship as the story progresses, and helps the protagonists survive against the pirates later on.
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Dr. David Livesey (/ ˈ l ɪ v s i /) is a fictional character from the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.As well as doctor, he is a magistrate, an important man in the rural society of southwest England, where the story opens; his social position is marked by his always wearing a white wig—even in the harsh conditions of the island on which the adventure takes place.
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 ...