Product Description: Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/12/2007 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com: Strap on your pantaloons and prepare to travel with Jim Hawkins and Blind Pew to one of the most famous fictional islands in history. Walt Disney's 1950 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's swashbuckling masterpiece has held up extremely well, with action and characterizations that feel freshly minted (although it's unlikely that the Mouse of today would sanction the high level of booze flowing throughout the picture). Great fun, with nary a wasted frame and, in the character of Robert Newton's much-imitated Long John, one of cinema's most boisterously crowd-pleasing villains ever. (Proving that you can't keep a good--er, bad man down, Newton would return with director Byron Haskins for the enjoyable sequel, Long John Silver.) Watching this classic is like having a flashback to some perfect Technicolor childhood. --Andrew Wright
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Well, shiver me timbers, another great pirate tale...
TREASURE ISLAND is a good example of Disney's way with live action when he began departing from his schedule of full-length animated features. His money at the time was tied up in the European market and he decided to make this version of the film in England with a splendid cast of actors and handsome use of Technicolor. ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful movie, has aged really well
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out in 1950 and Robert Newton's iconic portrayal of Long John Silver has stayed with me ever since! Something made me think about it a few weeks ago and I was delighted to find that it was available on DVD, but with some trepidation because so many old movies like this have not ... Read More
Rating: - Treasure Island Rev.
Disney's version is pretty damm good! I have watched both versions back to back. I will still have to give the edge to the original (1934 movie). Would highly recommend Disney's version. Edge to the pirates in original, edge to Robert Newton as Long John Silver, edge to Jackie Cooper in original movie especially in closing ... Read More
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