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When Jim Hawkins finds an old pirate map showing a small island marked with a red cross, he knows that a fortune in gold lies waiting for him. What could be more exciting than buried treasure? Aboard a ship named the Hispaniola, Jim sails toward Treasure Island. The voyage goes well until Jim overhears a frightening conversation. He learns that the one-legged man who signed on as ship’s cook is really the famous pirate Long John Silver. And worse—he discovers that the crew are teaming up with Silver to steal the treasure. Can Jim save the gold…and save his life?
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Treasure Planet: Original Soundtrack
Various Artists
Not exactly the most seamless adaptation ever attempted, this animated version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic swashbuckler (now set in outer space, even if the “ships” appear inexplicably unchanged since the 18th century) at least benefited from Disney’s always high production standards. Those factors also insure that James Newton Howard’s orchestral score is serviceably effervescent and retro enough for the film’s storytelling gambit—if still a long way from the heights of Korngold’s triumphant, genre-defining music for
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Treasure Planet
Ron Clements, John Musker
Treasure Planet, a pet project of
Little Mermaid,
Aladdin and
Hercules codirectors Ron Clements and John Musker, is an ambitious animation hybrid (traditional animation combined with elaborate CGI backgrounds). It was the subject of numerous in-studio battles, but Disney office politics and a poor public reception shouldn’t distract one from its many admirable qualities, not the least being its overall fidelity to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel
Treasure Island. Curiously revamped as a sci-fi adventure with space-faring…
