Treasure Island (1950 Full Movie)

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TreasureIsland is a 1950 adventure film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name. Directed by Byron Haskin, it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. Treasure Island was Disney's first completely live-action film and the first screen version of Treasure Island made in color. It was filmed in the United Kingdom on location and at Denham Film Studios, Buckinghamshire.

In the West Coast of England in 1765, a young boy called Jim Hawkins lives with his mother in a tiny country inn which they run. Captain William Bones, a sickly lodger, gives Jim a treasure map after being visited by two pirates, the second of whom gives the captain a note marked with the black spot, and sends him for help with a mysterious promise to share. Jim returns with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, only to find Bones dead at the inn, and Jim shows Trelawney the map. Trelawney recognizes the map as belonging to the buccaneer Captain Flint and bankrolls a voyage to discover the pirate's lost treasure. Trelawney hires Captain Smollett and his ship, the Hispaniola, bringing along Dr Livesey as the ship's doctor and Jim as the cabin boy.

Before departure, Trelawney is taken in by Long John Silver, a one-legged innkeeper, who agrees to gather a crew. Silver strikes up a friendship with Jim and joins the expedition as the ship's cook. Smollett is concerned about the crew, especially because the nature of their journey is common knowledge. At sea, Silver convinces Jim to acquire some rum, which he uses to get the first mate, Mr. Arrow, drunk so that he is washed overboard in a storm. Later, Jim overhears Silver and the crew's plan to mutiny, discovering that the seamen hired by Silver are Captain Flint's old crew. Jim reveals the treachery to Smollett, who asks Jim to stay friends with Silver to learn more. Upon reaching Treasure Island, Silver offers to tow the ship to a safer anchorage, using two of the ship's rowboats. While the ship is being towed, one of Silver's men, Merry, leads a mutiny on the ship. Smollett, having been warned of the plot by Jim, can hold them off with the few men loyal to him and imprisons the mutineers below decks. Silver cuts the rowboats from the Hispaniola and heads for shore with the rest of his men, taking Jim as a hostage. Smollett, Trelawney, and Livesey go ashore after them, leaving two guards on the ship.

On the island, Jim escapes and meets Ben Gunn, marooned by Flint five years ago. Gunn shows Jim the boat he's built, then leads him to Flint's stockade, where he meets up with Smollett and the others. Meanwhile, Merry escapes, takes the ship and raises the Jolly Roger. Silver returns to the Hispaniola, arms his men with muskets and makes plans to take the stockade. Short of men, Silver attempts to parlay with Smollett, but when he is rebuffed, Silver calls his men to attack. The assault on the stockade fails, but Silver wounds Smollett. Although seemingly protected by the stockade, Smollett surmises that, with the morning tide, Silver could move the Hispaniola into cannon range and level the fort.

Jim takes Gunn's boat and cuts the Hispaniola's anchor rope. The pirate Israel Hands discovers Jim and chases him up into the ship's rigging. Hands injures Jim's arm with a throwing knife but is killed by the boy's pistol. The Hispaniola runs aground, Jim strikes the Jolly Roger and hoists the Union Jack. Slowed by his wound, which becomes infected by swamp water, it takes him all night to get back to the stockade, which is unguarded. Inside, Jim searches for the doctor to tend his wound, but the man asleep under Livesey's coat is Long John Silver. Jim faints on the spot. Silver finds the map on him as his men wake up. Merry wants Jim dead, but Silver states he wants to trade him for the map, which his men believe is with Smollett. The men go outside to vote, pirate-style. From the stockade's lookout, while calling for Livesey, Silver sees that the ship's aground, flying the Union Jack, and believes that Smollett's party has recaptured the ship. The other pirates give Silver the black spot, but he refuses to acknowledge it. Rattled, they let him bargain with Livesey, who has come to treat Jim's infected wound, for the map.

Despite keeping his end of the bargain, Captain Smollett still wants Silver taken back for trial in England for his mutiny. Hawkins, Trelawney and two others take Silver to the Hispaniola aboard a rowboat loaded with a few chests of treasure. Silver snatches Jim's pistol and forces Trelawney and the others out of the boat but makes Jim stay to steer him out of the cove. Jim instead beaches him on a sandbar, and Silver orders him to push him off at pistol point, though Jim bravely refuses. Silver is unable to carry out his threat to shoot and drops the pistol in the water, attempting to push the boat off on his own. Seeing Silver struggle, Jim helps him, waving a hesitant farewell as Silver rows away with the treasure and bids him farewell in return.

Treasure Island was produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, Ltd., a joint-venture owned by Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures.[7] Walt Disney had been planning an adaptation of Treasure Island, originally intended to be animated, since the 1930s. Disney acquired the film rights to the novel from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had been planning on producing its own adaptation, in 1949. Disney decided to film the production in the United Kingdom with financial assistance from RKO so both could use "frozen" funds from ticket sales of their films released in Britain, which were required to be spent on film productions in the country.[1]

Filming was done between 4 July and 11 November 1949.[8] Exterior scenes were shot in Cornwall (River Fal, Falmouth, Carrick Roads, Gull Rock and Helford River), Devon (cliff scenes), Bristol (wharf), and Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. Interiors were filmed at Denham Film Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire. The ship scenes were filmed aboard the Ryelands, a real-life schooner from the 19th century.[1]

The casting of Bobby Driscoll, the film's only American actor, violated British labour laws as he did not have a Ministry of Labour permit to work in the country and additionally, was two years younger than the minimum to obtain one. A court in Beaconsfield fined Driscoll, his father, and Walt Disney Productions 100 each, and prohibited Driscoll from further work on the film. Still, Disney completed Driscoll's scenes and sent him back to the United States while his case was under appeal. The appeals court ruled that Disney had "brazenly flouted British law" by doing this.[1]

Reviews from critics were mostly positive. Thomas M. Pryor of The New York Times called the film "a grand and glorious entertainment" that "captures the true spirit of the novel."[9] Variety praised the film for its "sumptuous" set pieces and "a virtual tour de force" performance by Newton.[10] Sonia Stein of The Washington Post wrote that the film was "like a treasure chest of precious stones", with "some of the most beautiful color photography ever shot".[11] Harrison's Reports called it a "first-rate adventure melodrama that should thrill young and old alike",[12] while Philip Hamburger of The New Yorker called it "absolutely first-class ... mounted in Technicolor with such meticulous and imaginative care that I had the feeling throughout that I was watching a handsome illustrated edition of the book come to life."[13] The Monthly Film Bulletin was less positive, however, calling the production values "serviceable rather than imaginative" and finding Driscoll to be "unmistakably 20th century-American in this context", and "insufficiently an actor to have much of a shot at Jim".[14]

Walt Disney Productions re-released the film to US theaters in 1975. It had to be submitted to the MPAA to receive a rating; they gave the film a PG. At the time, Disney had a G-only policy that would not be relaxed for another four years to allow PG-rated films, so they cut the film to receive a G rating.[17] Those cuts totaled 9 minutes, bringing the film's running time down to 87 minutes.

The film came out on videotape in the US in 1981, 1985, 1991, 1996, and 1997, and on laserdisc in 1983 and 1992.[18][19] While the original videotape and laserdisc releases contained the 87-minute G-rated version, by the early 1990s the studio had restored the original theatrical cut with a PG rating, as several Disney-branded releases had already been rated PG by this point, and every release since 1991, including the 2003 DVD release, has been the uncut 96-minute version. The film was released on Blu-ray through the Disney Movie Club in 2015.

The 1950 film Treasure Island was the first color adaptation of the novel. It was directed by Byron Haskin and starred Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver, in a performance that did much to shape popular notions of what it means to Talk Like a Pirate.

The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions, and is the first Disney movie to be entirely live-action. (At one point there was a plan for a short animated sequence illustrating a story being told to Jim, la Song of the South, but this idea was ultimately abandoned.)

Robert Newton reprised the role in Long John Silver (1954), alongside Byron Haskin and an otherwise all-new cast. Haskin and Newton followed this up with The Adventures of Long John Silver the following year, which ran 25 episodes (in colour) until Newton's death. Neither of these were Disney productions.

Actionized Adaptation: The ending. In the book, Silver escapes from the Hispaniola's brig by night and slips away in one of the lifeboats with a chest of treasure. In this movie, he has a much more dramatic escape, which also allows him to say goodbye to Jim, and for Jim to acknowledge - to a greater extent than he did in the book - how much Long John has done for him. Adaptational Job Change: Hunter, and Joyce are two of Trelawney's servants in the book but are members of the ship's crew in the film. Adaptational Name Change: O'Brien is renamed "Haggott" for the film. The skeleton Allardyce is renamed "Darby M'Graw," in reference to Captain Flint's dying words in the book. Adaptational Nice Guy: Billy Bones is less rambunctious and unkind towards Jim than in the book As a consequence of receiving little characterization in the film, Redruth's antagonism with Jim is adapted out. Adapted Out: Tom (not to be confused with Tom Redruth) and Alan do not appear in the film, nor does Mr. Dance or Dogger, or Dick Johnson. Age Lift: Trelawney's servant Redruth is a cranky old man in the book and a young man in the film. Bowdlerise: Adhering to studio ethics, Disney toned down the violence for a 1975 reissue of the film in order to get a G rating, which was the print used on the earliest VHS and Laserdisc versions. The uncut version was submitted to the MPAA in 1992 with a PG rating and released on Laserdisc the same year. Canon Foreigner: Squire Trelawney's manservant Williams doesn't appear in the book. Chekhov's Gun: Long John Silver gives Jim a small pistol early in the movie, and convinces him to keep it even when the Captain confiscates all weapons from the crew. When Jim takes back the ship, he uses the pistol to defend himself from Israel Hands. Chekhov's Boomerang: At the end of the movie, when Silver has been captured and is being taken back to the ship he remembers that Jim still has the pistol Silver gave him earlier. Silver turns the tables on Squire Trelawney by seizing the pistol and making his escape. Chromosome Casting: The novel had only two minor female characters, Jim's mother and John's wife; the movie has none at all, although Mrs. Hawkins is at least mentioned. Decomposite Character: Joyce is adapted in the film as both Williams (a loyal servant who is killed fighting the pirates, like his book counterpart), and as Joyce (another sailor who has the same name as his book counterpart, yet survives the film). Job Anderson is adapted as both Roach (a pirate dies during the stockade battle while attempting to kill Jim, like his book counterpart), and Job (another pirate bears the same first name as his book counterpart yet survives until the end of the film). Dies Differently in Adaptation: Redruth is beaten to death aboard the ship by the captive pirates instead of being shot, with no ceremony to his name, while Hunter is killed during the stockade battle with a cutlass to his chest rather than a bullet to his head. The Dragon: Israel Hands; later, George Merry. Evil Mentor: Long John to Jim, although he does genuinely care about Jim's safety The Ghost: Mrs. Hawkins is mentioned a few times but is never seen. Go Mad from the Isolation: Ben Gunn, after being marooned on the island for five years, though Jim intuits that Ben isn't completely mad. Gory Discretion Shot: Averted. It is surprising Disney was able to make this film in the 1950s with all the violence it contained. Heroic RRoD: Unlike the novel, the film has Jim's injury from his fight with Israel Hands avert Just a Flesh Wound and only got worse as he made his way back through the island (and swamp, which he uses to try washing the wound and becomes more infected as a result.) When he makes it back to the cabin only to find Silver there, the injury and shock have him collapse and Livesey has to treat the wound the next day. Hoist by His Own Petard: In this version, Long John himself was the one who marooned Ben on the island, which, instead of leading to Ben's death, just gave him all the time he needed to find and move the treasure. Killed By The Adaptation: Tom Morgan and the rest of the mutineers are all killed by the end of the film rather than being marooned on the island. Large Ham: Long John Silver. Also Squire Trelawney. Monochrome Casting: Mrs. Silver, a black woman, was the only non-white character in the book. The film's cast is entirely white. More Despicable Minion: Pretty much all the pirates other than Long John, but Mr. Hands most overtly. Unlike George Merry, Israel Hands is smart and willing to keep his head down, accepting Long John's leadership... but he has none of John's scruples about protecting Jim. Papa Wolf: Silver towards Jim. He ultimately turns on all the other pirates to save Jim's life. Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Long John gives a rather cold-bloodedly casual one to George Merry in regards to Mr Arrow.Have you forgotten, George? I'm the one what's taking care of Mr Arrow. Israel Hands tries to dissuade Jim from shooting at him point-blank in the face ... all the while retrieving a knife from his boot and preparing to throw it.Now, now, matey. [smirks] Matey. Public Domain Character: Everybody from the original novel, which is how Haskin and Newton got away with making an unofficial sequel. Spared by the Adaptation: Blind Pew, the man who delivers the black spot, isn't run down by The Cavalry when they arrive to scatter the men ransacking the inn. Joyce survives the battle of the stockade, unlike in the book. The Starscream: George Merry rarely has a scene where he isn't challenging Silver's leadership and eventually tries to supplant him. Talk Like a Pirate: Newton's Silver is the Trope Codifier. Upper-Class Twit: As in the book, Squire Trelawney is the iconic image of the beef-witted country squire. Walking Shirtless Scene: Loyal sailors Hunter and Joyce spend the second half of the movie naked from the waist up, showing off well-sculpted chests. One of Silver's last remaining men also goes shirtless, and another's shirt is unbuttoned. Wham Shot: At the very end of the stockade battle, Long John Silver shoots Captain Smollett. What the Hell, Hero?: When Long John comes to negotiate with the heroes, they insist he have a seat. He does so, but only on the promise that someone will help him get up afterward (since he's missing a leg and has a hard time standing up by himself). After the negotiations finish, all of them renege on their promise, and he looks genuinely hurt, and the guilt on Jim's face (and to a lesser extent, Dr. Livesey's) is quite visible. Would Hurt a Child: A few of the pirates attempt to kill Jim, Israel Hands being the most notable. Famously averted with Long John.

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