Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

GManfred First thing you think of when you think "Treasure Island" is Newton's outrageous overacting job. The best part is it all works, and it is one of filmdom's most memorable performances as well as an example of outstanding scenery-chewing. He is an arresting image when on the screen - in fact, you can't take your eyes off him. Other examples of this would be Shirley Temple or Carmen Miranda. I thought it the first time I saw "Treasure Island" and it became indelible in my mind since that time when I was 12. The whole movie is a classic made from a classic novel, well done in all phases which is a hallmark of the Disney studios. It was mostly a British cast except for the tragic Bobby Driscoll, whose adult life is one of Hollywood's horror stories. "Treasure Island" was on the other day on old reliable TCM. Try to catch it next time if you haven't seen it - it's great.

EdwardCarter A deadly boring, badly acted movie that has not stood the test of time at all - although it probably wasn't that good when it was made over sixty years ago. Robert Newton overacts as Long John Silver and Bobby Driscoll was badly miscast as Jim Hawkins. His American accent was totally out of place, an English boy should have been cast. Most of the movie takes place in the studio even when they're supposed to be at sea. The worst part of all was a completely unfunny and embarrassing Ben Gunn - thankfully, he wasn't in the film for very long.The 1972 version with Orson Welles is far better, despite the dubbing of the international cast.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1950, A boy and his mother have a country inn on the ocean cliffs. An old sailor moves into the inn and is dying. He befriends the son of the inn keeper with is stories of living on ships. One night a strange blind man arrives and marks the old sailor for death from a pirate brotherhood with the 'Black Spot'. During a cutlass fight, the boy finds a treasure map in the sea chest of the dying sailor. He takes the map to the local authorities that know about it and set up a ship and crew to find the treasure. Once the ship, 'Hispaniola' leaves the port with mostly a secret pirate crew aboard; they arrive at the Treasure Island. The crew takes over the ship and attacks the obedient crew members trying to get the treasure for them. A marooned sailor helps the obedient crew members to find and stow the hidden treasure aboard the ship to go back to England for justice. 'Long' John Silver shows that he is an able conman, pirate, liar, double-crosser, and schemer through this whole treasure hunting experience.*Special Stars- Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton *Theme- Men will look for treasure even if they suffer for it.*Based on- Robert Louise Stevenson's famous pirate novel*Trivia/location/goofs- A vivid lush Disney version of the classic pirate novel with the harsh violence removed for the 1975 re-release. The ending is much different from the books climax.*Emotion- An enjoyable, but heavily censored story that became a Disney classic. This film doomed and type cast Robert Newton into a less than stellar acting career in playing only pirates roles for him. This film leads to Newton's less memorable 50's TV show.

johnnyboyz It's never easy watching a film you haven't seen for nigh on twelve years and it's especially difficult when you realise in the days of said viewing, you might have even seen it three times during one summer holiday week. Such was the situation with Treasure Island, a film rich in energy and sense of adventure with its glorious Technicolor for 1950 and expansive approach consisting of several exotic locations, both internal and external. Kids these days may well be brought up on Disney's golden goose in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, a trilogy I am not fond of at all, but viewing this for the first time in just over a decade felt more like a nostalgia trip than anything else but it still retains that charm and intrigue.I'll be blunt and put forward the case for the Golden era of Hollywood film-making being the best. If we compare Treasure Island to the much more contemporary 'Pirates' trilogy, we can see that back in the day a pirate was a character with an obscure accent and appearance to match – I am of course talking about Long John Silver played by Robert Newton in a performance that 'invented' the pirate 'cliché' (I use the word cliché with all due respect). As an actor, Newton is up there with Lugosi when it comes to bringing to the screen a filmic caricature; Lugosi's being the vampire. Nowadays, the character of the pirate is relegated to looking like a freak and in POTC's case must inhabit some sort of un-dead un-canniness within him to make it extra interesting. They are not aided when a name and a face in the form of Johnny Depp must stand in front of the camera and burble some nonsense in a silly voice.As a study of the pirate, Treasure Island is the Star Wars of the subject; it is the beginning and the breaking of the mould that allows all the more recent garbage to even get made in the first place so on one hand, you have to pay credit to Treasure Island for its ingenuity even if it is a bad thing in the long run. As a film alone, it just about makes the grade. As an historical piece, it owes a lot to the large scale Hollywood epics like King Kong and The Adventures of Robin Hood which placed its protagonists in strange and somewhat dangerous rural places before having them strive for their lives – once the film gets going, Treasure Island strongly resembles these narrative ideas. Indeed, the film's lone scene of rather extreme for the time violence is a siege on a rural makeshift fort in the jungle, something its hero Jim Hawkins (Driscoll) must endure.Treasure Island switches effortlessly between location scenes and studio based shoots, blending its editing in with its rousing score typical of the classical Hollywood era. There is a particularly well executed scene later on when, at night, a pirate chases young Jim around a boat and up some rigging before a final confrontation plays out. The scene is menacing perhaps purely for the reason it is a young child in quite some peril. But everything begins with an effortless establishment in Bristol, England where Jim (who's accent is American, but that will have to be ignored during viewing) comes across a treasure map hiding something in the region of £100,000. As a protagonist, Jim is a child but that does not mean he is weak. He serves drinks behind his mother's bar to the roughest looking of men and looks as if he can keep straight faced and cool headed when he needs to tell a lie. Jim is a child but he does not adopt typical childish characteristics and this is all helped by some good acting on Driscoll's behalf – Bloom and Knightly take note: get into your character, asses what they should be and then weigh up the predicament they're in and surprise your audience by going against type.As a character, Jim also represents in a meek fashion the target audience itself. The idea that Disney films were produced predominantly for kids was probably truer in 1950 than it is now and to have a young hero like Jim for the tykes to map onto is a good move, speaking from some form of experience I suppose one of the reason's I kept coming back to this film when I was very young was because I rarely saw a child protagonist in a film; either that or my parents realised it was a good way to shut me up and put it on every now and then. So if Jim is the fish-out-of-water child hero then the people around him are a little less-so. Squire Trelawney (Fitzgerald) is a loud, port drinking Englishman and the doctor is the opposite; a quiet and educated Englishman whom is also well-spoken. Equally so, the character of Ben Gunn once on the island comes off as failed comic relief that mercifully, is used in a sparse manner.This is a Disney film about pirates in which you do not get a pretty faced Keira Knightley caked in makeup talking about how she 'wishes to evoke the rule of parlez' in front of a group of characters whom resemble freaks more so than seafarers. The film is quite violent for a 1950s Disney flick and pushes the censorship codes at the time in the sense it allows a killer and a scoundrel to get away with it all. My heart says vote it higher but this is an ordinary tale, albeit interesting, that failed to 'wow' me in the manner other such classical films have done recently.