![]() Arrow some of the pudding to eat before going back above. Later on, a heavy storm is attacking the ship and all the seamen go above deck to keep the ship afloat. Jim gets the rum for Long John and he makes the pudding with it. “You be a good apprentice, Jim, me lad…a good apprentice!” Jim, eager to help, offers to obtain some rum from the squire without the Captain knowing. One day, Long John decides to make a special pudding, but is out of rum. ![]() Long John even gives Jim a gun to keep as a gift….you know, back in the days when giving a gun to a minor was alright. Jim helps Long John in the kitchen below deck often and the two spend a lot of time together. The journey is uneventful for the most part and Jim develops a close relationship with Long John Silver. So the ship finally sets sail and we get a montage of ship-sailing…routines. And that all the firearms be stowed in the Captain’s quarters as a precaution. So he tells the squire and the doctor that they should be wary of this crew and keep the true intentions of the voyage (this being a treasure hunt) strictly amongst themselves and the first mate, Mr. And to be fair, I wouldn’t trust that crew either. The problem is that Captain Smollett doesn’t trust the crew assembled by their cook. Once the crew is assembled, the ship is ready to set sail. “I’ll have you know that I used to be a seaman myself.” The squire agrees because…you know, all tavern cooks are great assemblers of sea voyage crews. Nah, he doesn’t seem suspicious in the least.Īfter conversing about the voyage (and flattering the squire a bit), Long John convinces the squire to let him assemble the crew so that they can leave later on that same day. The tavern is run by the appointed cook of the expedition, a one-legged man by the name of Long John Silver, played memorably by Robert Newton. With nothing else to do, the squire, doctor, and Jim head to a local tavern for some breakfast. “I told you she’d allow Jim to accompany us on this extremely dangerous and life-threatening naval voyage! Young boys NEED to get out more often!”Ī few days later, most of the arrangements have been made for the voyage the only thing needed is to hire a crew, an action that the hired Captain Smollett, played by Basil Sydney, has take personal control over. The doctor reluctantly agrees and Jim’s unseen mother (quite surprisingly) allows him to go too. He decides that they should all hire a crew and go after the treasure themselves. An awful idea! A simple idea! The Squire gets an awfully simple idea! After showing the squire and doctor the treasure map that Bones gave him, the squire gets an idea. Together, they rush back to the inn only to find Bones dead and the place ransacked. Livesey, played by Walter Fitzgerald and Denis O’Dea, respectively. Jim has, on the other hand, managed to get the help of a Squire Trelawney and a Dr. So where is the map? Apparently, Bones gave the map to Jim earlier on because he knew his end was nearing and got Jim out of the inn before the pirates attacked. “Why not check the map? That always helps one find things.” They try to find the map, but are unsuccessful. On one occasion, they actually manage to invade the inn while Jim is away. And because of this, other pirates have been trying to obtain the map from him. He’s in possession of a map that supposedly leads to the legendary treasure of a pirate named Captain Flint. One character in particular is an old pirate by the name of Bones…or Billy Bones…or William Bones…I’m just calling him Bones. Imagine having an underage boy serving alcohol in this day and age! The inn sees its share of shady characters…mostly seamen asking for rum. His ubiquitousness in Disney films makes him the male equivalent of Hayley Mills. The inn is run by a woman (she’s unseen…actually there are no women characters in the entire film) and her son, Jim Hawkins, played by Disney wonder boy, Bobby Driscoll. ![]() The film opens up to a small inn on the West Coast of England in the year 1765. Let’s look at the film together, shall we? I’m talking about the classic film based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, “Treasure Island”. It was a film about swashbuckling buccaneers and buried treasure…a tale of pirates that we all know and love. For 1920’s technology, I’m quite impressed!Įven many of his early feature films were a mixture of animation and live-action such as “Song of the South”, “So Dear to my Heart”, “Victory Through Air Power”, etc.īut his first FULLY live-action film was released in 1950. Walt Disney dabbled with live-action since early on in his career with the “Alice Comedies” from the 1920’s in which he put a real person into an animated world. (If this is your first time on this blog, I ask you to read my “About” page first! You can find a link to it at the top left-hand corner of this blog. ![]()
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