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David W. Orton
First Assistant Director -
John Stoll
Assistant Art Director -
Walt Disney
Producer -
Vivienne Walker
Hair Supervisor -
Robert Louis Stevenson
Story -
Byron Haskin
Director -
Bob Kindred
Focus Puller -
Perce Pearce
Producer
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CinemaSerf 12/27/2022 1:01:52PM
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!"
Gordon Mulholland
DurginHoward Douglas
WilliamsRobert Newton
Long John SilverPatrick Troughton
RoachBobby Driscoll
Jim HawkinsJim Brady
WolfeBasil Sydney
Captain SmollettGeoffrey Keen
Israel Hands