Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
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Long John Silver: Oh, for ten toes!
Long John Silver: And this`ll be young Master Hawkins, I`ll be bound. Hawkins - `tis a proper seafaring name, too.
Dr. Livesey: When do we sail?
Squire Trelawney: Better ask Captain Smollett. Five days, he`s been selecting a crew. Six men, all he`s got to show for it.
Dr. Livesey: Cautious, eh?
Squire Trelawney: Cautious? He pries into every seaman`s past like a judge at a quarter session. When I threatened to step in, he told me to hire a sea cook, so, by Jove, I did hire a sea cook, right out of his own tavern! Ha ha! Fellow by the name of Long John Silver. I didn`t waste my time poring over his credentials. All the credentials I needed was a taste of his ham and his buttered eggs!
Jim Hawkins: Pirates, Captain Flint! Pirates!
Jim Hawkins: Everything he told us was a lie. I`ve been a fool, sir.
Long John Silver: Now, then, matey, don`t ye take it so hard? Why, `tis lucky you came along, or Ol` John here, he`d have nothing to bargain with. But that don`t mean I`d harm a hair o` your little head.
Jim Hawkins: Liar! You let go of me!
Long John Silver: Them that die will be the lucky ones!
Long John Silver: Fire that musket and I cuts his throat
Trivia
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One of the first films to be re-released to theaters after being shown on television.
John Howard Davies, who had starred with Robert Newton in Oliver Twist (1948), was sought to play Jim Hawkins.
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# The featured performance of Robert Newton as Long John Silver is so iconic that it is thought by many to be the origin of today`s stereotypical "Arrrrr"-laced pirate patois.
Disney`s first live action movie. Walt Disney started the project when postwar restrictions stopped him from transferring profits from his cartoons out of Great Britain. Rather than set up a new animation studio, he used the profits and existing facilities to produce a conventional film.
One of the first Disney movies to be shown on television, this was first telecast in January 1955, as part of the "Disneyland" (1954) television program. It was the first Disney live-action film to be shown complete on television, in two one-hour installments shown a week apart, rather than having the entire film on a single evening. It was broadcast again in the 1960s, in the same format, after the series had changed its name to "Walt Disney`s Wonderful World of Color" and the show had moved to NBC.
Howard Douglas replaced actor Caven Watson at short notice.
Bobby Driscoll only had a 3 month work permit in England so all his scenes were filmed first, a long way out of continuity, in order to complete his role in time.
Filmed in England, not in the West Indies.
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