| Adventures Of Long John Silver |
ADVENTURES OF LONG JOHN SILVER 1957 TV CLASSIC
Long John Silver lived in Bristol, England, supposedly the birthplace of
Edward Teach, Blackbeard. In the early 1950s Disney produced films of
"Treasure Island" (1950) and "Blackbeard the Pirate"(1952), and the same
actor was used to play Silver and Teach - Robert Newton. Newton then
reprised his role of Long John Silver for "Long John Silver" (1954) and the
TV series "The adventures of Long John Silver (1955). It was a half-hour
series made for the English and American markets. Based on the Robert
Louis Stevenson pirate character from his novel 'Treasure Island', and set at
Porto Bello on the Spanish Main, the series featured English actor Robert
Newton in the title role. Newton had previously played the same part in the
1950 Disney movie Treasure Island, which was the first total live-action
motion picture made by the company.
If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons,
And buccaneers, and buried gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
- So be it and fall on!
CAST:
Long John Silver.......ROBERT NEWTON
Miss Purity Pinker.......CONNIE GILCHRIST
Patch.......GRANT TAYLOR
Jim Hawkins.......KIT TAYLOR
DISC ONE:
DEAD RECKONING
DEVIL'S STEW
DRAGON SLAYER
PIECES OF EIGHT
MISS PURITY'S BIRTHDAY
EXECUTION DOCK
DISC TWO:
TURNABOUT
THE EVICTION
THE NECKLACE
THE TALE OF A TOOTH
THE PINK PEARL
THE ORPHAN'S CHRISTMAS
DISC THREE:
RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND (MOVIE)
Long John Silver lived in Bristol, England, supposedly the birthplace of
Edward Teach, Blackbeard. In the early 1950s Disney produced films of
"Treasure Island" (1950) and "Blackbeard the Pirate"(1952), and the same
actor was used to play Silver and Teach - Robert Newton. Newton then
reprised his role of Long John Silver for "Long John Silver" (1954) and the
TV series "The adventures of Long John Silver (1955). It was a half-hour
series made for the English and American markets. Based on the Robert
Louis Stevenson pirate character from his novel 'Treasure Island', and set at
Porto Bello on the Spanish Main, the series featured English actor Robert
Newton in the title role. Newton had previously played the same part in the
1950 Disney movie Treasure Island, which was the first total live-action
motion picture made by the company.
If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons,
And buccaneers, and buried gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
- So be it and fall on!
CAST:
Long John Silver.......ROBERT NEWTON
Miss Purity Pinker.......CONNIE GILCHRIST
Patch.......GRANT TAYLOR
Jim Hawkins.......KIT TAYLOR
DISC ONE:
DEAD RECKONING
DEVIL'S STEW
DRAGON SLAYER
PIECES OF EIGHT
MISS PURITY'S BIRTHDAY
EXECUTION DOCK
DISC TWO:
TURNABOUT
THE EVICTION
THE NECKLACE
THE TALE OF A TOOTH
THE PINK PEARL
THE ORPHAN'S CHRISTMAS
DISC THREE:
RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND (MOVIE)
