Treasure Island (Walt Disney Film Classics) (The Fantastic Adventure Series) [VHS]
Strap on your pantaloons and prepare to travel with Jim Hawkins and  Blind Pew to one of the most famous fictional islands in history. Walt Disney's 1950 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's swashbuckling masterpiece has held up extremely well, with action and characterizations that feel freshly minted (although it's unlikely that the Mouse of today would sanction the high level of booze flowing throughout the picture). Great fun, with nary a wasted frame and, in the character of Robert Newton's much-imitated Long John, one of cinema's most boisterously crowd-pleasing villains ever. (Proving that you can't keep a good--er, bad man down, Newton would return with director Byron Haskins for the enjoyable sequel,Long John Silver.)  Watching this classic is like having a flashback to some perfect Technicolor childhood.--Andrew Wright