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Return to Treasure Island (1954)

Return to Treasure Island poster
Directed by
Ewald André Dupont
Genre
pirate film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Modern day adventurers in the 1950s set out to find the real desert island from the Treasure Island story. They treat the fictional novel as a true history and search for hidden treasure.

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What happens

Return to Treasure Island is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams and Porter Hall. Shot in Pathécolor it was distributed by United Artists. The film is about modern-day adventurers (circa 1950s) exploring the desert island from Robert Louis Stevenson's frequently filmed 1883 novel Treasure Island. Though Stevenson's story was fictional, it is treated as historical for the purposes of the film's plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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