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Treasure Island *** (1972, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield, Lionel Stander, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 2061
Orson Welles makes the expected 10-course banquet out of playing the pirate captain Long John Silver, revelling in revealing the murderous rogue’s dark side, in director John Hough’s generally entertaining adventure film. This adaptation was released in several […]
Treasure Island **** (1934, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 2060
‘You ain’t gonna let honesty stand in the way o’ bein’ smart? ‘ – Long John Silver. Director Victor Fleming’s 1934 adventure movie is a splendidly rambunctious, rumbustious retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 classic young […]
Treasure Island **** (1950, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 2058
Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Go on, Talk Like […]
The Thief of Bagdad ***** (1924, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 1791
Writer-producer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr took several of the 1001 Nights tales as his starting point to fashion the story of this classic 1924 silent movie as a showy vehicle for himself. He plays the clever Thief […]
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold *** (1994, Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 1726
Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern, re-creating their roles as the hapless Manhattan dudes Mitch Robbins and Phil Berquist from the 1991 comedy Western blockbuster City Slickers, are back looking for laughs in the great Wild […]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ***** (1948, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt) – Classic Movie Review 1,350
John Huston’s renowned 1948 adventure thriller film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre showcases one of Humphrey Bogart’s finest hours as the greedy Fred C Dobbs, one of three itinerant American prospectors, who try to […]
Cutthroat Island **** (1995, Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 912
The $100 million pirate movie box-office flop 1995 film Cutthroat Island that sank the Carolco studio is not remotely anything like as bad as its infamy suggests. Geena Davis is extremely sprightly and appealing as […]