PIRATE'S PLUNDER a young cabin boy, a roguish buccaneer... match wits in a swashbuckling adventure!
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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20228/10
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!"
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Cast
- Bobby DriscollJim Hawkins
- Robert NewtonLong John Silver
- Basil SydneyCaptain Smollett
- Walter FitzgeraldSquire Trelawney
- Denis O'DeaDr. Livesy
- Finlay CurrieCapt. Billy Bones
- Ralph TrumanGeorge Merry
- Geoffrey KeenIsrael Hands
- Geoffrey WilkinsonBen Gunn
- John LaurieBlind Pew
Crew
- Byron HaskinDirector
- Lawrence Edward WatkinScreenplay
- Freddie YoungDirector of Photography
- Clifton ParkerOriginal Music Composer
- Alan JaggsEditor
- Perce PearceProducer
- Walt DisneyProducer
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