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Treasure Island

on BBC One London

The film starring Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll, Basil Sydney.
A host of characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest sea tale of them all spring to life in Walt Disney's colourful live action entertainment.
When the sinister Blind Pew visits the Admiral Benbow Inn to serve the 'black spot' on ex-Captain Billy Bones, Jim Hawkins finds he has possession of the secret map of Captain Flint's buried treasure. His friends, Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, charter a ship, but unknown to them Flint's old crew, led by peg-leg Long John, has signed up for the voyage....
(Christmas Films: p 15 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Screenplay by:
Lawrence Edward Watkin
Produced by:
Perce Pearce
Director:
Byron Haskin
Jim Hawkins:
Bobby Driscoll
Long John Silver:
Robert Newton
Captain Smollett:
Basil Sydney
Squire Trelawney:
Walter Fitzgerald
Dr Livesey:
Denis O'Dea
Captain Billy Bones:
Finlay Currie
George Merry:
Ralph Truman
Israel Hands:
Geoffrey Keen
Ben Gunn:
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Blind Pew:
John Laurie
Black Dog:
Francis DeWolff

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