Film· 1950· Adventure

Treasure Island

by Byron Haskin

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Treasure Island

Book · 1883

AdaptationMEDIUM

Disney's first fully live-action feature, made in Britain with frozen sterling earnings. Robert Newton's Long John Silver is the performance that invented the stage pirate accent, which is not in Stevenson and has been attached to pirates in every medium since.

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Treasure Island

A cabin boy at his mother's inn comes into a dead sailor's map and sails with a gentleman's expedition to find what it marks, not knowing that the cook who has befriended him signed on with most of the dead man's crew. Robert Newton's Long John Silver is where the stage pirate voice comes from: the growl, the rolled r and the West Country vowels are his invention and are not in Stevenson.