Treasure Island (1950)
Directed by Byron Haskin
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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The camera shows us examples of Charles' early work, obsessed with a young actor, Bobby Driscoll, who played the boy in Disney's Treasure Island (1950).
It even has the same guy from 2003 still giving a bad imitation of Robert Newton as Long John Silver in “Treasure Island” (1950).
The only other two actors of note in the film are Shirley MacLaine in one of her first screen roles as the Indian Princess Aouda, who comes to melt Fogg's icy exterior; and Robert Newton, better known to American audiences as Long John Silver in "Treasure Island," as Police Inspector Fix.
The biggest and most famous pirate films — the aforementioend Johnny Depp films, Hook, Treasure Island — all whitewash or nullify the power of race at sea. They also sanitize the violence about about murders and rapists to make them more appropriate for children.
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(Granted, their Treasure Planet isn’t the most faithful adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, but it is still an adaptation of that story.)