Search - Long John Silver: Return to Treasure Island on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1953 DVD Release: 01/20/2004 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Delta Total Copies: 2 Genres: Adventure, Costume Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure See Also: Return to Treasure Island, Long John Silver: Return to Treasure Island, Return to Treasure Island, Long John Silver

Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this Australian adventure film--and if anything, Newton is even more out of control this time around than he'd been in the earlier picture. Paying only lip service to the Robert Louis Stevenson original, the film is made up of several marginally related episodes. In the first, Silver rescues a governor's daughter, managing to save the day and crooked line his own pockets in the process. In the second, Long John quells a mutiny and prevents his young friend Jim Hawkins (Kit Taylor) from having to walk the plank. And in the third, Long John and Jim arrive at Treasure Island, where they're forced to duke it out with the minions of Silver's old enemy Mendoza (Lloyd Burrell). Connie Gilchrist costars as Purity, Long John's on-and-off pubkeeper sweetheart. Long John Silver was later sliced up into three separate half-hours and released to TV as part of the 26-episode Long John Silver TV series, which of course also starred Robert "Arr, matey!" Newton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Robert Newton - Long John Silver
Kit Taylor - Jim Hawkins
Connie Gilchrist - Purity Pinker
Eric Reiman - Trip Fenner
Syd Chambers - Ned Shill