Treasure Island (1950)

'Treasure Island' was Disney's first full length all live action motion picture. Filmed in Britain and distributed by RKO Pictures, it's probably a little slow for modern audiences, but it looks great, bravo on the costumes and set design. The ill fated actor Bobby Driscoll (found dead in an abandoned New York tenement building at 31) plays young Jim Hawkins, while Robert Newton gives perhaps the most piratey performance in film history (and I'm including Johnny Depp) as Long John Silver,  a part he would return to in another movie as well as a television series before dying from an alcohol abated heart heart attack six years later at the age of 50. So there are some sad tangential stories to this, but it's probably the most iconic version of the story that will ever be put to film. ***