Rating: PG
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 04/29/2003
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Excellent For Children
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video

The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver (Robert Newton) for a treasure. Disney changes the ending of the book, yet the film is so entertaining--particularly Newton's scene-stealing performance--that the difference is forgivable. In the '70s, Treasure Island was re-issued with "objectionable" violence cut out of the print; the original version was restored in the 1992 home video re-release.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Bobby Driscoll - Jim Hawkins
Robert Newton - Long John Silver
Basil Sydney - Capt. Smollett
Walter Fitzgerald - Squire Trelawney
Denis O'Dea - Dr. Livesey
Finlay Currie - Capt. Billy Bones
Ralph Truman - George Merry
John Laurie - Blind Pew
Francis de Wolff - Black Dog
Geoffrey Wilkinson - Ben Gunn
Geoffrey Keen - Israel Hands
William Devlin - Tom Morgan
Sam Kydd - Cady
Harry Locke - Haggott
Stephen Jack - Job Anderson
Gordon Mulholland - Durgin
Patrick Troughton - Roach
Leo Phillips - Spotts
Fred Clark - Bray
Tom Lucas - Upson
David Davies - Mr. Arrow
John Gregson - Redruth
Howard Douglas - Williams

Production:
Byron Haskin - Director
Perce Pearce - Producer
Clifton Parker - Composer
Alan Jaggs - Editor
Lawrence Edward Watkin - Screen Writer
Peter Ellenshaw - Art Director
Freddie Young - Cinematographer
Tony Sforzini - Makeup
Muir Mathieson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Tom Morahan - Production Designer
Robert Louis Stevenson - Book Author

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