best 'Treasure Island' adaption ever?
This movie is just awesome, great cast and storytelling. No "hollywood" action crap and flying saucers, just good storytelling and ambience.
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it is absolutely superb, the acting, the music, the story everything.
shareyep. atmospheric, great acting, wonderful locations, lovely music - whats not to like?!
Why has Edward Woodward got four 'd's' in his name?
Because otherwise he'd be Ewar Woowar.
yep. No other book adaptation has given me Deja Vu.
"Thanks to Frank here, I know all there is to know about our friend, the tongue"-Beau Felton
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this had much less violence than a 1999 version i saw, there was also a bit of changing of roles, in that version he's with his gran in the beginning. takes a while getting used to hestons accent, i don't like when actors put on a fake voice, the scene where they refused to lend long john silver a hand was much stronger in the 1999 version, where palance has to drag himself off on the ground being a cripple, the relation between long john silver and the kid was more complicated too. i didn't recognise christopher lee in this, what a waste having him in a tiny unrecognisable part, i was surprised this movie was over 2 hours, it really felt overlong, why can't they have hour long movies like in the old days, i wonder what the running time became airing on tv.. i was very surprised it was a tv movie, i thought it was the other way around thinking the 1999 version was tv made.
no fuel, no you,
empty streets, end of journey,
woke up this morning,
spirit all day asleep,
when the night came,
youre not there, not a sign of blessed yesterday,
all but the clothes stripped off my back,
now nothing left but a swan song,
as down the road i go.
The Jack Palance version is the worst of the lot. And no, the relationship between Long John and Jim Hawkins ("the kid") was not more complicated in the Palance version. Just the opposite: it was absolutely clear cut: they were on the same side. The Heston version is the one that has the exact same ambiguity that the book has. This version is by far the most faithful to the book, in all parts of the story.
As for Christopher Lee, he wasn't nearly as world famous when this movie was made, as he was post Lord of the Rings. He's had lots of roles like this.