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Walt Disney
Producer -
Charles Squires
Assistant Editor -
Dennis Sawyer
Assistant Editor -
Herbert Smith
Executive Producer -
Bob Kindred
Focus Puller -
Skeets Kelly
Camera Operator -
Byron Haskin
Director -
Peter Ellenshaw
Matte Painter
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CinemaSerf 12/27/2022 1:01:52 PM
This is a cracking interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of a hunt for a legendary treasure on a remote desert island. Robert Newton is superb as the double-dealing, one-legged "Long John Silver" who would betray his own mother if needs be, enlisted by the foolish "Squire Trelawney" to raise a crew to get them to Hispaniola where Flint's treasure is reputedly located. There's a solid effort from the enthusiastic young Bobby Driscoll as "Jim Hawkins", and Basil Sydney, John Gregson and Denis O'Shea complete the complement of "loyal" officers as against a crew riddled with cut-throats. It's a great, colourful, seafaring adventure with it's fair share of twists and turns. It's odd to see Geoffrey Keen ("Israel Hands") as a baddie and John Laurie, Finlay Currie and a super Francis de Wolff all help Byron Haskin's adaptation to be the best of all. "Them's the die'll be the lucky ones!"
Geoffrey Keen
Israel HandsFinlay Currie
Capt. Billy BonesBobby Driscoll
Jim HawkinsWalter Fitzgerald
Squire TrelawneySam Kydd
CadyPatrick Troughton
RoachRobert Newton
Long John SilverJohn Laurie
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