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"If sailor tales and sailor tunes, storm and adventure, heat and cold. If schooners, islands and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold, and all the old romance retold exactly in the ancient way can please as me they pleased of old the wiser youngsters of today... So be it!" Robert Lewis Stevenson
There are a few versions of this movie and even a few TV series and a new movie in production I understand.And why not?? Unlike the silly pirates of the Caribbean series of movies,this story is based on a real novel a classic,by Robert Lewis Stevenson rather than a kids ride at a theme park.My issue with this film version,the one I grew up on,is its a little dated and looks like it was shot mostly in doors or on sound stages with only a few scenes outdoors.Its also very slow moving thus 2 stars off.Released in 1950 it runs but 96 minutes.What really makes this movie memorable is the classic performance of Robert Newton as Long John Silver and the way a very young Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins plays to him rather than being cutesy and trying to steal the film.It is after all a Disney film.So if you want to see a good pirate film with limited action but a classic story of growing up,see the film.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below.
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver. Written by Patchy Groundfog <strat@ix.netcom.com>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVX5ZfTcGNU
There are a few versions of this movie and even a few TV series and a new movie in production I understand.And why not?? Unlike the silly pirates of the Caribbean series of movies,this story is based on a real novel a classic,by Robert Lewis Stevenson rather than a kids ride at a theme park.My issue with this film version,the one I grew up on,is its a little dated and looks like it was shot mostly in doors or on sound stages with only a few scenes outdoors.Its also very slow moving thus 2 stars off.Released in 1950 it runs but 96 minutes.What really makes this movie memorable is the classic performance of Robert Newton as Long John Silver and the way a very young Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins plays to him rather than being cutesy and trying to steal the film.It is after all a Disney film.So if you want to see a good pirate film with limited action but a classic story of growing up,see the film.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below.
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver. Written by Patchy Groundfog <strat@ix.netcom.com>
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