In this swashbuckling, high-seas adventure, Walt Disney has vividly brought to life Robert Louis Stevenson's thri­lling tale of buccaneers and buried gold – presented for the first time in its original, uncut theatrical version! Authentic locales and musket-roaring action set the stage for the stout-hearted heroics of young Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) and the skullduggery of that wily, one-legged pirate, Long John Silver.

Review

“Strap on your pantaloons and prepare to travel with Jim Hawkins and Blind Pew to one of the most famous fictional islands in history. Walt Disney's 1950 a­daptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's swashb­uckling masterpiece has held up extremely well, with action and characterizations that feel freshly minted (although it's unlikely that the Mouse of today would sanction the high level of booze flowing throughout the picture). Great fun, with nary a wasted frame and, in the character of Robert Newton's much-imitated Long John, one of cinema's most boisterously crowd-pleasing villains ever. (Proving that you can't keep a good–er, bad man down, Newton would return with director Byron Haskins for the enjoyable sequel, Long John Silver.) Watching this classic is like having a flashback to some perfect Technicolor childhood.”–Andrew Wright