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	List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $74.92 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent Starring: Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Richard Johnson Directed By: Fraser Clarke Heston
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301670104 Format: Closed-captioned ISBN: 6301670108 Label: Turner Home Ent Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Release Date: 2001-12-18 Running Time: 132 Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: 1990-01-22
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Editorial Reviews: A tale about a fatherless boy finding dramatically different father figures throughout a remarkable adventure, Treasure Island is an entertaining coming-of-age story, with themes of family, loyalty, friendship, trust, and honesty at its core. While Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale is popular film fare, it's never been done this well. Charlton Heston stars as Long John Silver and Christian Bale as plucky Jim Hawkins in this TNT production. Directed by Heston's son Fraser (who also directed the excellent family fare Alaska), the film remains faithful to the novel, and draws much of the spirit and excitement of the book. The action scenes are first-rate, and if the ship Hispaniola has never looked better or more authentic, no surprise: the ship is the original from 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty. The opening scenes are dark and rich, as they capture the period well, with careful attention to makeup (the teeth, the body grime!) and costuming. Oliver Reed and Christopher Lee are frighteningly effective as Capt. Billy Bones and Blind Pew, and the film's first half-hour is theirs. The tone shifts and lightens when Heston appears as the legendary pirate. Look for Pete Postlethwaite, Julian Glover, and Richard Johnson in wonderful supporting roles. The film marks Bale's segue from poignantly promising child actor (Empire of the Sun) to compelling teen (he would later continue to prove his talent as a versatile young actor in Little Women and Velvet Goldmine). --N.F. Mendoza
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Treasure Island - best production Comment: This is the best performance of this story that I have ever seen. They got EVERYTHING right: acting, cinematography, music (awesome score from the Chieftans).... I remain completely mystified as to why this prodcution is not available on DVD!!! Customer Rating: Summary: The quintessential version! Comment: Fraser Heston and a great cast made the quintessential versionof R.L. Stevenson's classic! Great perfomances by Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Pete Postlethwaite and a young Christian Bale! And, of course, Charleton Heston. I do not understand why this is not available in DVD. Customer Rating: Summary: The best production of this classic that I have seen Comment: If we judge a movie not by the script alone but by the acting, costumes and scenes, this movie has it all. Everyone has the book to start from in making the movie: some have chosen to make a children's movie and made vanilla pirates without the violence or language of the original. I think this movie with some realistic blood and guts filming is more faithful to the original than any other version that I have seen. I liked the movie. Customer Rating: Summary: Marvelous Version Comment: Only one negative - The picture quality on the VHS is not very good, even for 1990. Positives - The cast, sets, costumes, direction and dialogue. Oliver Reed steals the first part and Charlton Heston is superb as a conniving but likeable Silver. I admired Christian Bale in Rescue Dawn and I could see the man and actor he would become in his role as Jim Hawkins. We want a re-mastered DVD version! Customer Rating: Summary: Video Treasure Island Comment: I played the VHS movie Treasure Island once and the tape was crinkled and wouldn't play. I feel like I waisted my money. It was for a classroom project and I was unable to finish that portion of the unit. I am not pleased. It was a faulty product.