Robert Newton

Robert Newton

Robert Newton was one of the great character actors -- and great characters -- of the British cinema, best remembered today for playing Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1950) and its sequel in 1954. His portrayal of Long John Silver and of Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) created a persona that was so indelible that his vocal intonations created the paradigm for scores of people who want to "Talk Like a Pirate." The performance overshadows Newton's legacy, which is based on many first-rate performances in such movies as This Happy Breed (1944), Odd Man Out (1947) and Oliver Twist (1948), where his Bill Sykes is truly chilling. Oliver Reed, who played Sykes in the Oscar-winning movie musical Oliver! (1968) was influenced by Newton.

  • Title: Robert Newton
  • Popularity: 1.0957
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-06-01
  • Place of Birth: Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, UK
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Robert Newton Movies

  • 1956
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    Around the World in 80 Days

    Around the World in 80 Days

    6.636 1956 HD

    Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

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  • 1948
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    7.6 1948 HD

    When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

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  • 1948
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    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

    6.5 1948 HD

    Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

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  • 1937
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    Fire Over England

    Fire Over England

    6.2 1937 HD

    The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

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  • 1954
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    Long John Silver

    Long John Silver

    5.848 1954 HD

    In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.

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  • 1950
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.6 1950 HD

    Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

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  • 1939
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    Jamaica Inn

    Jamaica Inn

    6.114 1939 HD

    In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

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  • 1937
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    The Green Cockatoo

    The Green Cockatoo

    5.8 1937 HD

    A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

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  • 1939
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    Dead Men Are Dangerous

    Dead Men Are Dangerous

    5 1939 HD

    Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.

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  • 1946
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    Night Boat to Dublin

    Night Boat to Dublin

    6.3 1946 HD

    British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

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  • 1949
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    Obsession

    Obsession

    6.769 1949 HD

    A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

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  • 1953
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    The Desert Rats

    The Desert Rats

    6.3 1953 HD

    In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.

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  • 1951
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    Tom Brown's Schooldays

    Tom Brown's Schooldays

    6.9 1951 HD

    When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.

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  • 1947
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    Odd Man Out

    Odd Man Out

    7.291 1947 HD

    Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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  • 1941
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    Major Barbara

    Major Barbara

    6.75 1941 HD

    Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

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  • 1954
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    The High and the Mighty

    The High and the Mighty

    5.9 1954 HD

    Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

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  • 1952
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    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion

    5.8 1952 HD

    George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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  • 1944
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    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed

    7.2 1944 HD

    A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

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  • 1942
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    Hatter's Castle

    Hatter's Castle

    5.5 1942 HD

    The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

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  • 1947
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    Temptation Harbour

    Temptation Harbour

    5.1 1947 HD

    The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.

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  • 1942
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    They Flew Alone

    They Flew Alone

    6 1942 HD

    The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

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  • 1950
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    Waterfront

    Waterfront

    6.4 1950 HD

    When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.

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  • 1952
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    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    5.9 1952 HD

    Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

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  • 1948
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    Snowbound

    Snowbound

    5.9 1948 HD

    Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

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  • 1952
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    Les Miserables

    Les Miserables

    5.2 1952 HD

    In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

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  • 1940
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    Busman's Honeymoon

    Busman's Honeymoon

    5.8 1940 HD

    When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...

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  • 1937
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    The Squeaker

    The Squeaker

    6 1937 HD

    London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

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  • 1938
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    Vessel of Wrath

    Vessel of Wrath

    6.7 1938 HD

    Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.

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  • 1951
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    Soldiers Three

    Soldiers Three

    3.833 1951 HD

    Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

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  • 1969
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    The Epic That Never Was

    The Epic That Never Was

    6.7 1969 HD

    The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

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  • 1954
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    The Beachcomber

    The Beachcomber

    6 1954 HD

    Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.

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  • 1939
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    Poison Pen

    Poison Pen

    6.5 1939 HD

    The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

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  • 1940
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    21 Days Together

    21 Days Together

    6.1 1940 HD

    After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.

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  • 1940
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    Gaslight

    Gaslight

    7.088 1940 HD

    Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.

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  • 1939
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    Hell's Cargo

    Hell's Cargo

    1 1939 HD

    Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.

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  • 1937
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    Farewell Again

    Farewell Again

    5 1937 HD

    Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.

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  • 1944
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    6.642 1944 HD

    In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

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  • 1940
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    Channel Incident

    Channel Incident

    1 1940 HD

    During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.

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  • 1937
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    Dark Journey

    Dark Journey

    6.4 1937 HD

    Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.

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  • 1954
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    The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    7.8 1954 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6.4 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.8 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7.2 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3.3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7.2 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1957
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    Jingle All the Way! Christmas Stories Vol. 2

    Jingle All the Way! Christmas Stories Vol. 2

    1 1957 HD

    A collection of three classic TV episodes; Date with the Angels, Adventures of Long John Silvers and Crossroads

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  • 1957
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    The Adventures of Long John Silver

    The Adventures of Long John Silver

    6.7 1957 HD

    The Adventures of Long John Silver is a family adventure series about the Long John Silver character from Treasure Island. Produced in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television. Long John Silver is the proud captain of his own ship and his own crew. He and his buccaneer cruise around the Caribbean and often stay on the side of the English and fight the French and Spanish. After long and dangerous adventures, he and his crew rest in the tavern of Miss Purity. The series first aired in the United States on syndicated basis in 1956, but irregularly as part of another show. Several episodes were edited together and shown theatrically under the titles: 'Under the Black Flag' and 'South Sea Pirates'. Afterwards, it was sold to the ITV in the UK, and aired in 1957. In 1958, the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) screened the series as part of Children's TV Club.

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