Livesy (Denis O’Dea) to find Captain Billy Bones murdered, then decides to show them the treasure map entrusted to him, sparking the big idea, in Walt Disney’s hit adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, 1950, starring Robert Newton.
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Each Treasure Island movie has its own approach to the story, including or. This time, lad hero Regbo shines, too, palpably maturing as he finds his way through all those shades of gray. Treasure Island (1950) - (Movie Clip) Flints Map Jim (Bobby Driscoll) returns to the inn with Squire Trelawney (Walter Fitzgerald) and Dr. Treasure Island is a novel that has been adapted for film on multiple occasions. Syfy miniseries always seem to excel at sketching three-dimensional villains. It's up to the actors to pull us through, and that they do, led by Izzard's dynamic command of a man for whom survival is the only rule. So the pace lags, and even thrilling moments start to feel episodic. The tale's connective tissue, however, is all over the map, literally. Writer Stewart Harcourt (TV's "Poirot") and Irish director Steve Barron (1998 miniseries "Merlin") hew mostly faithful to Stevenson's grimy tale, staging its bloody incidents on vivid locations in Ireland and Puerto Rico. MY SAY This down-and-dirty miniseries, now airing in one night, is as odd a duck as the parrot riding Izzard's shoulder. Thus, Silver and his refreshingly polyglot 18th century mates go undercover to retrieve it, crewing the treasure-seeking new world voyage of map-finding teen Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) and the less than admirable adults to whom he turns. He's after that X map, and its track to the gold trove sneakily stolen from the men who originally took the treasure, which was then stolen by Donald Sutherland's cackling Captain Flint.
Directed by Byron Haskin, it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. And, of course, Oliver Reed is marvellous as the rum-swilling taproom brawler Cap'n Billy Bones - over-acting, or not acting at all? It's a shame he's tipped the Black Spot so early on.By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. 4,100,000 (worldwide rentals) Treasure Island is a 1950 live-action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1883 novel. But Christian Bale reprises the excellence of his performance in Empire Of The Sun, and Heston romps wildly between deepest West Country and twinkle-eyed Celt - those who recall TV's Captain Pugwash will chuckle warmly at such barnacled terms as "swab", "me hearty" and "avast". The violent and obsessive trail of Flint's treasure halfway across the globe is punctuated by unnecessary soul-searching which pads out the film by half an hour. Though a rattling good action/adventure epic, it over-establishes Silver's treachery, Hawkins' maturing, Trelawney's oafishness and so forth. Otherwise, this is a faithful movie adaptation and looks good too, from the squalor of British quayside inns to glorious Jamaican lagoons, and the reappearance of the replica HMS Bounty as first seen in 1962's Mutiny On The Bounty. Rather than coming to terms with girls/his parents/life after high school as per usual, Jim achieves maturity by killing a couple of grown-ups and saving his shipmates. A year before the equally star-studded Hook hit the cineplex, is the Robert Louis Stevenson chestnut in a made-for-TV rendering seen through the eyes of Jim Hawkins (Bale) as his rites of passage.