Treasure Island (1950)

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Movie
German title Treasure Island
Original title Treasure Island
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1950
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Byron Haskin
script Lawrence Edward Watkin
production Perce Pearce
music Clifton Parker
camera Freddie Young
cut Alan Jaggs
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
The Treasure of the Corsairs

Treasure Island (Original title: Treasure Iceland ) is a Disney - adventure film from the year 1950 and thus one of the many film versions of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson . In the film, British actor Robert Newton plays the evil Long John Silver and child star Bobby Driscoll Jim Hawkins.

action

Jim Hawkins, a boy from near Bristol , England , finds an old treasure map . He got this from the old seafarer Bones, who collapsed dead one evening after being attacked several times. Jim learns that the map is that of the legendary pirate captain Flint. Now Jim is full of energy to find the treasure that is described on the map.

Together with Squire Trelawney, a landlord , the doctor Doctor Livesey and Mr. Smollet, a ship's captain from whom they knew, Jim sets out to look for the treasure. The treasure hunters want to get to the Caribbean with a ship called Hispaniola . What they do not know is that there are former sailors of Captain Flint aboard the Hispaniola. Also on board is one of the leaders of the Flint Pirates, the ship's cook Long John Silver. Silver befriends Jim Hawkins in the hopes he could steal the treasure map from Jim and find the treasure on his own. Jim doesn't know who Silver is and trusts him. After hiding in a barrel, he overhears a conversation between Silver and the sailors who are discussing the plot. Jim then tells the Squire, Livsey and Smolett about his experience. However, a return is no longer possible.

Shortly after the Hispaniola reaches the ominous island, a mutiny breaks out among the pirates. However, Captain Smollet, Livesey, Trelawney can escape from the ship and hide from the mutineers in an old camp on the island. Silver takes Jim hostage to use him as leverage against the treasure map. But the boy manages to escape the pirates and, completely disappointed, escapes from his friend Silver to the island's forest. There he meets the only islander Ben Gunn, who was abandoned on the island by Silver five years ago. He takes him to his friends' fort and also helps him to get a small boat with which Jim later swims to the Hispaniola and can put the ship on the sand to prevent the pirates from escaping.

The two parties are now split into two camps and fight each other to gain possession of the treasure map, with losses occurring on both sides. Jim now gets between the fronts and falls again into the hands of the pirates. Silver, whom his men already began to distrust, can take the treasure map from Jim and now lead the pirates to the place where the treasure is. But there they only find a single piece of gold; the treasure is gone. As the situation escalates, Smollet, Trelawney, Livesey and Ben Gunn come to the rescue and shoot the remaining pirates. Ben Gunn now leads the group to the place where the treasure is located, which he had found and brought to safety during his time on the island.

Long John Silver, who is about to receive his sentence in England, is finally able to escape with Jim's help and flees into the sea with a stolen dinghy.

background

Treasure Island was the first full real-life film by the Walt Disney Company , which previously specialized in cartoons. It was also the first color film adaptation of Stevenson's novel . The film was shot exclusively in England: Part of the film was shot on a studio stage in front of a painted backdrop at Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire . Outdoor recordings were made in Cornwall and Devon counties as well as Bristol .

For the then 13-year-old child star Bobby Driscoll, this extremely successful film meant the last major role in his career, which from then on increasingly fell asleep; he only played in second-rate films and died in 1968 of the effects of years of drug use. The film was only released in theaters over a year after it was shot ; in Germany it did not start until December 1951.

synchronization

The German-language dubbed version was created for the German cinema premiere in 1951 at RKO Synchron Department Berlin .

role actor German Dubbing voice
Jim Hawkins Bobby Driscoll Michael Günther
Long John Silver Robert Newton Eduard Wandrey
Dr. Livesey Denis O'Dea Hans Emons
Squire Trelawney Walter Fitzgerald Hans Hessling
Captain Smollet Basil Sydney Siegfried Schürenberg
George Merry Ralph Truman Ernst Wilhelm Borchert
Captain Billy Bones Finlay Currie Victor Janson
Ben Gunn Geoffrey Wilkinson Walter Werner
Israel Hands Geoffrey Keen Werner Peters
Mr. Arrow, first mate David Davies Herbert Wilk

Reviews

This film adaptation of Treasure Island from 1950 has mostly received positive reviews to this day. The lexicon of international films wrote: “Exciting and effective adventure film, superbly played in the main role.” Prisma found the film to be “an excellently staged variant that does not exactly follow the literary model, but with good actors (especially Robert Newton in the role of Long John Silver), excellent equipment and successful photography convinced. "The American film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars out of four:" Lively Disney film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, shot in England , with Driscoll as fine Jim Hawkins and Newton as the definitive embodiment of Long John Silver. It changes the end of the novel, but who can still complain? "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Treasure Island (1950) at the synchronous database
  2. ↑ Treasure Island. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 11, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Treasure Island. In: prisma.de . Retrieved August 11, 2018 . The treasure island at Prisma
  4. ↑ Treasure Island at Turner Classic Movies